Genetic research in asthma has proceeded on a few different fronts: identifying variants that might predict response to therapy, identifying variants that are associated with the development of the ...

How is severe asthma defined and who does it affect? Internationally, severe asthma is defined as anybody who is on maximum therapy, which has no measurable side effects, but still have symptoms of ...

How many children does asthma affect? How does asthma impact a child’s daily life? Asthma affects about 1 in every 10 children and the prevalence seems to be increasing. Asthma impacts children in ...

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 ...

A growing body of research on Covid-19 suggests that the virus’ link to asthma is far more complex than experts might have anticipated. Early in the pandemic, researchers racing to identify the ...

Comes in May, and the word is chest diseases among the science community, as World Asthma Day is celebrated each year on 5 May to raise awareness of asthma worldwide. According to the World Health ...

Of all the announcements Apple made on Monday, ResearchKit, which measures health data from iPhone users to be used in medical research, may have the broadest influence on society. Corey Bridges, the ...

To quantify the strength of the relationship between asthma and other chronic diseases and to analyse whether co-morbidities contribute to unscheduled asthma care. Against this background, we used ...

There are several different types of asthma, and each has its own set of triggers. Some common types include allergic, nonallergic, seasonal, occupational, and exercise-induced asthma. Asthma causes ...