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Decoding nature’s role in allergies: Insights from HEDIMED
Byjm_admin February 11, 2025February 17, 2025

Like other immune-mediated diseases, allergic diseases have been increasing in the Western world at the same time as economic and societal development, urbanization, and Western lifestyle in general. Allergic diseases include allergic asthma, allergic rhinitis, food allergy, atopic eczema, and as a severe case anaphylaxis. The European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) has…

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What’s behind the ‘epidemic of immune-mediated diseases’?
Byjm_admin April 18, 2022April 20, 2022

Many infectious diseases have dramatically decreased during the last 100 years in developed countries. Meanwhile, epidemiologic statistics indicate an increasing incidence in allergic disorders, like asthma, rhinitis and atopic dermatitis and autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis (MS) and celiac disease.1 As these diseases impact millions of people especially in Western nations,…

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