Climate change and global warming driven by air pollution and carbon emissions are contributing to worsening respiratory health and increasing numbers of asthma-related emergencies and deaths.

A non-profit organisation, Cido Asthma Foundation, has called for greater use of inhalers in treating asthma, warning that tablets and injections could have harmful side effects. The foundation ...

If you have symptoms or an asthma attack, it's important to know when to call your doctor to prevent an emergency. You use these medications to ease asthma symptoms. They relax the muscles that ...

Though there is no cure for asthma, Avner says there are key treatments available to help manage the condition. These commonly include inhaled medications such as steroids, "which reduce ...

Failure to stick to their drug treatment was associated with a near doubling in the risk of an asthma attack and a more than 60% heightened risk of an emergency department visit, the findings ...

reported they did not adhere to their asthma medications in the previous year because of cost, Chung-Hsuen Wu, PhD, of Taipei Medical University in Taiwan, and colleagues reported in Thorax.

A recent trial finds an injection given during some asthma and COPD attacks is more effective than the current treatment of steroid tablets, reducing the need for further treatment by 30%.

Are you one of those families racing to find new asthma medications as respiratory virus season approaches? The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is trying to help patients and families ...

"The system is really getting in the way," said a pediatric pulmonologist. After many trips to the doctor's office, five-year-old Burton Hayes's asthma was finally under control with a medication ...

they need to see their doctor for an adjustment in their asthma treatment,” Dr, Evans says. Asthma—and the serious conditions related to it—can affect everyone differently, so those with ...

When Jacqueline Vakil needed a refill for Flovent, her 4-year-old son’s asthma medicine, she couldn’t get it. The drugmaker GSK had stopped making the popular inhaler, back in January.