TORONTO, Ontario, Canada -- Mayo Clinic pulmonary researchers have designed and tested a new patient education computer program intended to help people with asthma manage their disease. The program ...

The most common asthma inhaler for children was discontinued at the start of this year, forcing parents and pediatricians to scramble to switch to an alternative. But more than a month later, the ...

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, ...

Life as a teenager and older adolescent is defined by turbulence. Normal body changes and hormonal shifts cause emotional and social challenges. As high school ends and adulthood begins, this ...

A monthly injection has helped 90% of severe asthma patients reduce daily steroid tablets, which are associated with long-term side effects. More than half of the participants who had received the ...

In 2017, an expert commission organized by the Lancet examined the current state of asthma care. That commission identified poor medication adherence as one of the principal barriers standing between ...

Black and Latinx patients who took inhaled corticosteroids when they used reliever medications, in addition to usual care, had fewer severe asthma exacerbations, improved asthma control, improved ...

SAN ANTONIO -- Patients with asthma at one large academic medical center were not prescribed a biologic therapy very often over a 5-year period, a researcher reported, although patient adherence to a ...

Asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits jumped significantly on days when thunderstorms occurred, based on data from more than 4000 visits. The findings were presented at the American College ...

The morning Jennifer Martinez headed to her regular spin class seemed like any other day. Within minutes of starting her workout, however, the 42-year-old marketing executive found herself in the back ...