After the Veterans Health Administration tweaked its formulary on an asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease therapy, hospitalizations and emergency department visits increased, according to ...

Many children continue to experience respiratory symptoms up to 14 years after treatment for protracted bacterial bronchitis, ...

The Lancet on the anti-IL-5 antibody mepolizumab in individuals with allergic asthma, evidence has accumulated that the pathogenetic role of eosinophils is fundamentally different between asthma ...

Recommended management of asthma, including appropriate diagnostic steps and use of fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) in ...

Objectives The optimal method of identifying people with asthma from electronic health records in primary care is not known. The aim of this study is to determine the positive predictive value (PPV) ...

Background: Limited access to exercise testing facilities means that the diagnosis of exercise induced asthma (EIA) is mainly based on self-reported respiratory symptoms.

To summarize, GERD is a common but often overlooked cause of bronchial asthma. Thus, asthmatics with reflux symptoms or " difficult-to-control" asthmatics should be investigated for coexisting GERD.

A study designed to assess the duration of efficacy of a 3 year course of SCIT on cat- or dog-induced asthma found that, although there was a significant increase in allergen-induced bronchial ...

There are common symptoms that crop up when an asthma attack strikes, which could help you avoid a life-threatening emergency.

Background Control of asthma is the goal of asthma management worldwide. The Global Initiative for Asthma defined control by a composite measure of clinical findings and future risk but without using ...

Objectives Use data from the UK Severe Asthma Registry (UKSAR) to assess the efficacy and safety of bronchial thermoplasty (BT) in routine UK clinical practice and to identify characteristics of ...

Background The benefits of aerobic training for the main features of asthma, such as bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) and inflammation, are poorly understood. We investigated the effects of aerobic ...