Asthma Research Could Lead To Preventing Attacks In Future, Says British Lung Foundation

�Research promulgated in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (PNAS) explores the mechanisms behind the common cold virus and how it causes asthma attacks.



The research, funded by the British Lung Foundation, Asthma UK, the Medical Research Council, Imperial College London and the Wellcome Trust, is good news for the v million asthma sufferers in the UK because it may lead to a way of preventing attacks in future.



"The common cold is the independent reason wherefore people with asthma experience bad attacks," says Professor Neil Barnes, spokesperson for the British Lung Foundation. "This enquiry is of import because it helps us to empathize exactly what happens in our lungs during an asthma attack and it may lead to a way of preventing attacks in succeeding."



1. The British Lung Foundation is the simply UK charity working for everyone unnatural by lung disease. The charity focuses its resources on providing support for people unnatural by lung disease today; and industrial plant in a variety of ways (including funding foremost research) to bring around positive change, to ameliorate treatment, care and support for people affected by lung disease in the future.



2. It provides data via the website hTTP://www.lunguk.org and telephone helpline 08458 50 50 20.



3. In 2006 the charity launched a membership outline with the aim of recruiting the 8 1000000 people with lung disease in the UK and anyone with an interest in lung disease.



4. One person in every septenary in the UK is affected by lung disease - this equates to approximately 8 million the great unwashed



5. Respiratory disease is the second biggest killer in the UK (117,456 deaths in 2004) after all non-respiratory cancers combined which only account for slightly more than deaths (122,500 deaths in UK in 2004)



6. Respiratory disease now kills one in five people in the UK



7. The UK's death rate from respiratory disease is nigh double the European ordinary and the 6th highest in Europe



8. Respiratory disease is the most unremarkably reported recollective term malady in children and the third near commonly reported in adults. One in 7 boys and 1 in 8 girls aged 2 - 15 reputation having farsighted term respiratory illness in England

British Lung Foundation


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UNAIDS Expresses Concern Over The Safety Of Three Ugandans Arrested During An International AIDS Conference

�The Joint United Nations Programme on
HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) expresses rich concern over the refuge of three individuals wHO were
arrested at the HIV/AIDS Implementers Meeting held in Kampala, Uganda, thirty-eight June 2008,
and wHO are currently involved in ongoing margaret Court proceedings on charges of trespass.
The three individuals were arrested on 4 June later a peaceable protest to express their
concern regarding insufficient attention to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support for
men world Health Organization have sex with men in Uganda. They were charged with criminal transgress and
released on bail pending trial. At the time of the merging, UNAIDS, as one of the confluence
co-sponsors, made known that the three individuals were welcome at the group discussion and
they were after accredited.


In light of recent allegations that one of the three was abducted and subjected to abuse,
UNAIDS calls on the Government of Uganda to see the rubber and upbeat of the three
individuals, both before and after a finding of fact is reached. As UNAIDS has stated in the past, all
people are entitled to a fair trial with full regard for due process, regardless of their sexual
orientation. Any allegations of roughshod, degrading or inhumane discussion must be fully
investigated, and in the consequence of substantiated allegations, fitly prosecuted and the
victim provided restitution and compensation.



Experience in the planetary response to AIDS has shown that it is of the greatest importance to
guarantee that all people, including members of civil society, who work to promote HIV
prevention, treatment, tending and support for all those unnatural by the epidemic are supported
to do so. UNAIDS reiterates its support to the Government of Uganda for a comprehensive
response to prevent the transmission of HIV; to provide for treatment, care and support for
those living with HIV; and to protect the human rights of all those affected by HIV.



UNAIDS is an innovative articulation venture of the United Nations, delivery together the efforts and resources of
the UNAIDS Secretariat and ten UN system organizations in the AIDS response. The Secretariat
headquarters is in Geneva, Switzerland-with stave on the ground in more than 80 countries. Coherent
action mechanism on AIDS by the UN system is co-ordinated in countries through UN theme groups, and roast
programmes on AIDS. UNAIDS' Cosponsors include UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, UNDP, UNFPA, UNODC,
ILO, UNESCO, WHO and the World Bank.

http://www.unaids.org


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