Joining forces for research on asthma, allergy, and airways
"Breathe Sweden", a digital platform for researchers who collect studies on diseases and disorders of the respiratory tract, has now ...
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Older adults with asthma at high risk for depression during the COVID-19 pandemic
A recent, prospective study of approximately 2,000 older adults in Canada published online this month in the journal Respiratory Medicine ...
NIH study links specific outdoor air pollutants to asthma attacks in urban children
Moderate levels of two outdoor air pollutants, ozone and fine particulate matter, are associated with non-viral asthma attacks in children ...
LJI researchers find missing piece of the asthma puzzle
LA JOLLA, CA—An inflammatory molecule called LIGHT, appears to be the cause of life-threatening airway damage in patients with severe ...
Risk of severe asthma attacks doubled after Covid-19 restrictions lifted
Adults with asthma had, at one point, an approximately doubled risk of a severe asthma attack after Covid-19 restrictions were ...
Persistent asthma linked to increased buildup of plaque in arteries leading to the brain
Embargoed until 4 a.m. CT/5 a.m. ET Wednesday, November 23, 2022 DALLAS, Nov. 23, 2022 — Adults with persistent asthma ...
Obesity-related gut damage may worsen asthma symptoms
Changes in gut function caused by weight gain are associated with an increase in asthma severity, according to research to ...
Experimental treatment approach counters allergic asthma without weakening flu defenses
Blocking the action of calcium signals in immune cells suppresses the most common form of asthma, but without compromising the ...
Simple new tool allows primary caregivers to detect young kids at high risk of asthma
A team of researchers working with the CHILD Cohort Study (CHILD) has developed a simple new symptom-based screening tool that ...
Development of screening tool for children at high risk of pre-school asthma
About The Study: A symptom-based screening tool was able to identify children at high risk of asthma as early as ...
NTU Singapore partners local hospitals in setting up Singapore Severe Asthma Registry to tackle severe asthma; joins global registry
JOINT NEWS RELEASE Credit: Credit to Nanyang Technological University, Singapore JOINT NEWS RELEASE Singapore, 16 September 2022 A research ...
Smoking around your young son could raise the risk of asthma for your future grandchildren
Children are more likely to develop asthma if their father was exposed to second-hand smoke when he was a child, ...
Key mechanisms of airway relaxation in asthma revealed in new study
CLEVELAND--Many therapeutics for asthma and other obstructive lung diseases target the β2-adrenergic receptor (β2AR), a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) that ...
Oil spill cleanup workers more likely to have asthma symptoms
Researchers from the Gulf Long-term Follow-up Study (GuLF STUDY) found that workers involved in cleaning up the nation’s largest oil ...
Monoclonal antibody reduces asthma attacks in urban youth
A monoclonal antibody, mepolizumab, decreased asthma attacks by 27% in Black and Hispanic children and adolescents who have a form ...
Potential long-term treatment for asthma found
09 August 2022 | Birmingham, UK Credit: Aston University 09 August 2022 | Birmingham, UK New approach tackles one of ...
AAFP approved for $31 million for large study on asthma treatments
LEAWOOD, Kan. — The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), in partnership with Penn State College of Medicine, has been ...
Hospital readmissions for asthma on the rise among children
Hospital readmissions for asthma are increasing among children, according to a new study, highlighting the gaps in health care for ...
More than a quarter of people with asthma are still over-using rescue inhalers – putting them at increased risk of severe attacks and hospitalisation
Asthma is a common lung condition that affects 5.4 million people in the UK and can lead to symptoms such ...
Institutional racism linked to worse asthma outcomes for Black Pittsburghers
PITTSBURGH, June 16, 2022 – Redlining – a discriminatory mortgage lending practice instituted in the 1930s – resulted in health ...