A recent study found that a sizable portion of the commercially insured asthma population lacks disease control, regardless of asthma severity, signaling a needed shift in treatment strategies.

Just about everyone with asthma knows the drill. Take a daily snort of a prescription inhaler filled with a steroid that helps fight inflammation, to prevent trouble. Not everyone actually does this, ...

Small airway dysfunction is common in adult well-controlled asthma and is independently linked to increased risk for future exacerbations.

—These promising early results suggest that several nonpharmacologic treatments are worthy of further study in patients with asthma. The most disabled patients may benefit the most. Reviewed by Ware ...

VIENNA — Physicians are called to record clinical details of patients with asthma undergoing biologic therapy to monitor clinical remission and keep an eye on eosinophilic granulomatosis with ...

Asthma, also called bronchial asthma, is a condition that affects your lungs. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines it as a chronic health condition involving muscle tightening and inflammation ...

Steroid inhalers commonly used by asthma patients to prevent and reduce asthma attacks may not work any better than placebo, according to a new study published Sunday in the New England Journal of ...

Individuals with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were more vulnerable than healthy controls to epithelial cell changes caused by microplastics exposure, based on data from a ...

"Together, these highlight the fact that oral corticosteroids contribute to burden, even intermittently used," Oppenheimer ...

Asthma is a respiratory condition marked by spasms in the bronchi of the lungs, causing difficulty in breathing. Today, flare-ups of asthma are typically self-treated through the use of an inhaler ...