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[SmartAboutHealth.Net] Researchers Blame Climate Change For Rise In Allergies ...: Washington (SmartAboutHealth) – A new study has highlighted the belief that climate change is leading to a rise in allergies around the world.

[California Watch - All Content] Climate change causing allergies, researchers say | California Watch: Apocalyptic images of global climate change include drought, rising sea levels, suffocating coral reefs and emaciated, drowning polar bears. But a new study points to some of the more immediate and mundane side effects of global warming: runny noses, itchy eyes and persistent coughs.

[Dalje.com (English) (English)] Climate change may be linked to allergies - Health - Lifestyle ...: The Quest Diagnostics Health Trends Report -- Allergies Across America by Quest Diagnostics -- analyzed the results of ImmunoCAP specific Immunoglobulin E (IgE) blood testing to 11 common allergens, including common ragweed and mold, two house dust mites, cats and dogs, and five foods.

[Cal Coast News] Is climate change causing allergies? | Cal Coast News: Ziska and another team of researchers, earlier this year, showed that the ragweed pollen season has increased by nearly a month since 1995. The team’s data, he told California Watch, “demonstrate a clear correlation between frost-free days and ragweed pollen season” and therefore, to higher exposure to the ragweed allergen.

[Disabled World News] Ragweed and Mold Allergy Prevalence: Early results from the largest cross-sectional national allergy study ever conducted, to be released later this week, suggest that allergies have increased in America, but that most of the increase was due to two environmental allergens, ragweed and mold. The study, based on nearly 14 million test results from more than 2 million patient visits, is believed to be the largest to suggest that increased prevalence of the two allergens, which have been associated with climate change, are largely responsible for an increase in allergies in the United States.

[New Drugs Info] Men May Have Greater Allergy Risk Than Women, Suggests Largest ...: A study of nearly 14 million blood tests for aiding allergy diagnosis shows that men exhibited higher sensitivity to 11 common allergens than women when tested, contradicting other research suggesting women experience allergies more frequently than men. The study’s findings raise the possibility that men have a higher risk for allergies than women or that men, as a function of their gender, require different reporting standards when evaluated for allergies with increasingly used blood tests.

[Organic Consumers Association News Headlines] Climate Change Causing Increase in Allergies: Apocalyptic images of global climate change include drought, rising sea levels, suffocating coral reefs and emaciated, drowning polar bears. But a new study points to some of the more immediate and mundane side effects of global warming: runny noses, itchy eyes and persistent coughs.

[Emaxhealth] Rise in Allergies Due Mostly to Ragweed and Mold: Allergies Across America, a Quest Diagnostics Health Trendsâ™ Report, is the largest cross-sectional study of allergies ever conducted in the United States. The findings are based on the results of nearly 14 million blood tests for 11 common allergens (ragweed, mold, two house dust mites, cats, dogs, and five foods) and involved more than 2 million patient visits.

[Real Science] Men Are More Allergic To Global Warming Than Women | Real Science: Washington (SmartAboutHealth) - A new study has highlighted the belief that climate change is leading to a rise in allergies around the world.

[npusm] Chicago 6th-worst in US for allergies - NewsPlurk: Houston Chronicle (blog) ( 5/26/2011 7:49:59 AM -08:00 ) .Washington (SmartAboutHealth) – A new study has highlighted the belief that climate change is leading to a rise in allergies around the world.

[MedCity News] Eli Lilly loses first round to Amylin Pharma (Morning Read): Feeling more allergic, blame climate change – A new study has found links between climate change and rising allergies worldwide. Researchers from Quest Diagnostics studied 2 million blood samples to find that over the course of four years overall .

[TopNews United States] Is Climate Responsible For Allergies? | TopNews United States: Naides says, "We believe this is the first large national study to show that the growing prevalence of allergies, suggested by other studies, is largely due to increases in environment-based allergens previously associated with climate change".

[The One World Focus] New report links increased allergies with climate change – Houston ...: Naides, medical director of immunology at Quest Diagnostics, said: “We believe this is the first large national …

[I.N.N. World Report] Headline News 5-26-11: A new study by Quest Diagnostics finds that climate change is the leading cause in the rise in allergies around the world. Quest researchers conducted the study which focused on 2 million blood samples.

[xiamenb2c04.'s blog] have a longer season of suffering - xiamenb2c04.'s blog: The sneezing, eye-watering, itchy-throated misery that comes with allergies is on the rise, led by a growing numbers of Americans sensitive to ragweed and mold. And in certain big cities -- Phoenix, Las Vegas and the Riverside-San Bernardino area among them -- the misery of ragweed allergies has lots more company than in others, says a new national study.

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