Wheezing is a whistling sound caused by narrowed airways and is common in asthma. Asthma involves airway inflammation leading ...

Nearly a quarter of children with recurrent wheezing have 'silent' lung infections that would be better treated with antiviral medications than commonly prescribed steroids that can carry lifelong ...

Infectious disease specialists at UB have demonstrated a potentially effective treatment to prevent the frequently life-threatening complications that can develop in infants from infection with ...

Inhaling wildfire smoke could have immediate effects on children in Los Angeles, such as coughing and wheezing, which may lead to more long-term health effects. Cough is going to be the most common ...

Among children with asthma, are inhaled corticosteroids effective in controlling wheezing that is associated with these children’s gut microbiome? The frequency of wheezing in children with asthma is ...

In a recent research letter published in the journal JAMA Network Open, scientists in Italy compared the rates of respiratory medication usage and wheezing due to bronchiolitis among children born ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

“We hope this discovery will stimulate further work in the treatment of recurrent wheeze and viral infections in children,” said researcher W. Gerald Teague, MD, a pediatric pulmonologist at UVA ...