Despite a wealth of available treatments to control the symptoms of chronic asthma, the lung disease has no cure. The discovery of an unexpected cause of asthma could change that. A glitch in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients with asthma, those with chronic cough vs. without chronic cough had worse respiratory symptoms, ...

New research from the La Jolla Institute for Immunology has brought a novel, long-term treatment for severe asthma a step closer. Building on a decade of work, the new findings present a potential way ...

By Linda Naa Deide AryeeteyCape Town, March 6, GNA – The World Health Organisation (WHO) General Special Envoy on Chronic ...

Chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma account for 4% of all deaths in South Africa and poverty is the main underlying driver of these diseases, say experts.

The Assessment of Burden Chronic Conditions (ABCC) tool adds validity when measuring burden of disease among people with chronic conditions, according to one study. “To our knowledge, this is the ...

A Professor of Medicine at the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, Professor Olufunke Olayinka Adeyeye, has said no fewer than 13 million Nigerians suffer from Asthma, a respiratory disease.

Coughing is a reflex that typically serves as a defense mechanism to clear the airways of irritants or secretions. (Fun fact: Coughs can propel air and particles out of the lungs and throat at speeds ...