Topic: Rachel Miller

Flu-Fighting Fetuses

Via the placenta, a newborn baby receives a 6-month supply of antibodies from its mother, arming it against a world chock-full of allergy-causing particles and viruses. But Rachel Miller, an allergist and immunologist at Columbia University, believed the fetal immune system was ...

How Important Is a Name?

Rachel Miller, a mom of two in Benwood, West Virginia, is obsessed with names. Miller pored over the annual SSA (Social Security Administration) tally of how many babies received which names as avidly as other people read front-page headlines or baseball stats ...
Studies have shown that the substances that a pregnant mother is exposedto have a direct impact on the health of the unborn baby. According to Rachel Miller of Columbia University, the dosage and timingplays a significant role, much of which the researchers ...

Anaphylaxis

The rapidity of symptom development is an indication of the likely severity of reaction: the faster symptoms develop, the more severe the ultimate reaction. All medical personnel should be trained to recognize the symptoms of anaphylaxis and to use the proper emergency ...
During those two weeks in October, 2004, air pollution levels were lower than average at his laboratory in Tuxedo, New York, 30 miles north of New York City. But Lippmann soon learned that concentrations of tiny particles of nickel were the highest ...

Dirty air makes for wheezy kids: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Small particles from traffic and heating oil combustion may cause children younger than two to wheeze and cough, according to a new study.High air pollution levels have previously been linked to asthma symptoms in children living in ...

Fetus Fight Club

At birth, the human immune system is pretty useless; for months newborns rely on immune factors acquired from their mothers while their own infection-fighting systems develop. Columbia University immunologist Rachel Miller recently found evidence babies have pretty well developed immune systems by ...

Fetuses could have 'mature' immune system

FLU shots are usually considered safe for pregnant women. While this "adaptive" immune response was thought to develop only after birth, evidence is now emerging that a baby's immune system may not be as immature as was thought (New Scientist, 29 ...