Allergy and ADHD meta-analysed and guess what...

" Reports of frequent manifestation of allergic diseases in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have been t...

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"Asthma was associated with increased risk for schizophrenia"

'Big data' Taiwan is once again the topic of a post on this blog as the results published by Wei-Chen Wang and colleagues [1] ( ope...

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Poverty status and autism, ADHD and asthma

The paper by Christian Pulcini and colleagues [1] talking about poverty status potentially influencing " parent-reported lifetime prev...

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ADHD and asthma (yet again)

" Children with ADHD  [ attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ]  have a higher prevalence of asthma than the general Quebec pediatr...

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Parkinsonism in adults with autism

" We find a high frequency of parkinsonism among ASD  [autism spectrum disorder]  individuals older than 39 years. " So said the ...

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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome following atopy?

Regular readers might already know that I'm a bit of a fan of the various data coming out of Taiwan based on interrogation of the  Nati...

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Autism, asthma and IL-17

" IL-17 was increased in ASD  [autism spectrum disorder]  children with co-morbid asthma compared to controls with the same condition....

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