Speaking on the groundbreaking research, Professor Dr Stuart Turvey said: "It’s important to understand why this is happening and how it can be prevented." The professor, in the Department of ...

Several major childhood allergies may all stem from the community of bacteria living in our gut, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of British Columbia and BC Children’s ...

The presence of four types of gut bacteria in infancy may reduce a child's risk for asthma, Canadian researchers report. Most infants get these bacteria naturally from the environment. But some babies ...

(The Hill) — A new study has found that problems with gut bacteria could lie behind four major — and very different — childhood allergies. Eczema, hay fever, asthma and food allergies afflict more ...

Gut microbiota are everywhere nowadays, both because we’re all walking around in giant clouds of them, and also because scientific study of them is booming. These bugs are scarily deterministic: ...

The process of pumping, storing and bottle-feeding breast milk may reduce the transfer of bacteria from mom to baby A new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and the University ...

Researchers at BC Children’s Hospital have discovered a new rare disease found to plague the healthy development of young brains. The discovery, released in the scientific journal HGG Advances last ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (The Hill) — A new study has found that ...