Research into allergic asthma has shown a strong correlation between allergies to cockroaches and asthmatic response. Dan Remick, chair of the pathology department in the School of Medicine, is working to find a cure.
One of the new methods he’s looking into is actually thousands of years old: the research has demonstrated that Chinese herbal medicines often work to block the asthmatic response in mice. Now, Remick is applying Western scientific approaches in studying exactly how the medicines work within the body.
