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.

Female night shift workers face a higher risk of asthma, especially postmenopausal women not on HRT, according to a large ...

More than 80 million people in Europe are affected, and many more are undiagnosed, with primary care practitioners ill-prepared to identify the conditions.

Experts say half of people with asthma have at least one asthma attack each year, and more than 3,500 die of asthma. Things ...

Esther Bejarano's son was 11 months old when asthma landed him in the hospital. She didn't know what had triggered his symptoms—neither she nor her husband had asthma—but she suspected it was the ...

Mortality rates specific to asthma have been falling, according to an abstract presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference. Yet patients with one or more ED visit or ...

Women who work night shifts are more likely to suffer with moderate or severe asthma compared to women who work in the ...

Plenty folk have an asthma puffer but few seem to know how to use it. Adherium says its Hailie device is improving compliance ...

Of course, doing that can mean that your medical regimen is no longer effective and you need ... If you’re having undesirable side effects from your asthma medication, the first step is to talk to ...

We are grateful to the data input staff and medical and nursing staff at the BTS Registry Difficult Asthma Centres. We thank the Respiratory Effectiveness Group for supporting this project.

Influential expert in respiratory medicine. Born on June 11, 1947, in Tshwane, South Africa, he died on Jan 18, 2025, in Cape Town, South Africa, aged 77 years.

Reduction of the risk of asthma attacks is a major goal of current asthma management. We propose to derive a risk scale predicting asthma attacks based on the blood eosinophil count and exhaled nitric ...