Asthma can be unpredictable, turning everyday activities into challenges when symptoms flare up. Managing asthma at home requires a proactive approach to minimize triggers and maintain a healthy ...

Cleveland researchers have proven that many asthma attacks are preventable, and simple interventions can save $5,000 per patient per year. Ohio is lagging behind other states in taking advantage of ...

The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America has issued the guidance because May has been declared the U.S. National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month. This is the time of the year, bridging spring ...

Nothing sends more kids to the hospital than asthma. So when doctors at Children's Hospital in Boston noticed they kept seeing an unusually high number of asthmatic kids from certain low-income ...

After years of studying the causes of asthma, a pediatrician-turned-public health sleuth thinks there’s a way to substantially reduce its impact. But the approach faces a big hurdle: getting someone ...

A home-based plan to ease kids' asthma symptoms works and may be cost-effective, a new study shows. The study included 800 children aged 5 to 11 with moderate to severe asthma. Most were black or ...

The prevalence of asthma is increasing, especially in children. In the United States, asthma affects approximately 22 million people. It is the most common chronic disease of childhood. Today, 6 ...

That tightness in your chest, the wheezing that wakes you at night, the inhaler that’s suddenly your constant companion. If your asthma symptoms have been intensifying lately, you’re not imagining ...

The environment children live in can often affect their pediatric asthma. The environment children live in can often affect their pediatric asthma. Researchers recently compared where children lived ...

Results from a new national survey demonstrate that elevated allergen levels in the home are associated with asthma symptoms in allergic individuals. The study suggests that asthmatics that have ...

One environmental specialist says old housing infrastructure coupled with climate change is exacerbating asthma symptoms.

Dr. Elizabeth Matsui, a professor at Johns Hopkins medical school, has been conducting asthma studies in and around Baltimore. She and her team focus on allergens in dust from low-income homes that ...