Respiratory specialist nurse Holly-Louise Catlin reflects on child asthma deaths and how some groups of asthma sufferers are ...

Most children with asthma in the United Kingdom do not regularly receive guideline-recommended monitoring, and when they do, exacerbations are reduced. These were among study findings published in ...

Inhaled beta-2 agonists. albuterol (Proventil, Ventolin), pirbuterol (Maxair), terbutaline (Brethaire), or bitolterol (Tornalate). Two to four inhalations of the metered dose inhaler can be used ...

Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) recently issued a safety alert requiring extra warnings to be included ...

This is especially true for people with exercise-induced asthma or EIB. For these people, their asthma symptoms are triggered ...

It has been found in a recent study published in Heliyon that individuals who are genetically predisposed to having ...

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A new report calling for stricter regulations on wood-burning stoves and urging the Executive to raise public awareness about ...

There are many myths about asthma and how to treat it—perhaps none more misleading than the belief that asthma is not a serious health condition. Stanley Fineman, MD, MBA First of all ...

Four million cases of childhood asthma could be caused by air pollution from traffic - around 13% of those diagnosed each year, a global study suggests. Current pollution guidelines may need ...

guidelines on asthma management. Bedfont ® manufactures the NObreath ® Fractional exhaled Nitric Oxide (FeNO) device, which aids in diagnosing and managing asthma. Nitric oxide is a gas found in ...

A new study published in the journal Science reports that scientists have created a mask-based device to help monitor biomarkers for certain medical conditions such as COPD and asthma by analyzing ...