Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women with asthma outnumber men by about 3 to 1. Asthma encounters accounted for 4% of ED and inpatient visits.

All patients with asthma benefit from medical care. In 2006, asthma was responsible for 10.6 million physician office visits, 1.2 million hospital outpatient department visits, and 1.7 million ...

The adage, "There's an app for that" is even more true in light of an app that sends an alert to your allergist's office when your asthma may be out of control. An article in the May issue of Annals ...

Associations between asthma and dementia differed based on the patient’s age and asthma control, according to a study ...

The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) recently released a new clinical guideline on biologic management in severe ...

What to do when a patient’s asthma control deteriorates after switching to a more environmentally friendly, or ‘greener’, ...

Approximately one-third of asthma patients may actually not have the long-term inflammatory disease, according to new research published in JAMA. For the study, researchers recruited 701 participants ...

ATLANTA - Prices are rising sharply on many asthma inhalers just in time for spring allergy season and some insurance companies are not covering the higher costs, and many patients cannot afford the ...

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. To make matters ...

Researchers from Hiroshima University in Japan and collaborating institutions have found that adults with asthma who ...