They also found that inducing a second asthmatic trigger during a bronchial spasm at a precise time will actually cause the smooth muscle to relax and stop the spasm. The treatments for bronchospam ...

Here's an Olympic factoid that surprised me: there are about 700 athletes in London with confirmed asthma diagnoses, and (if trends from past Olympics continue) those athletes will be roughly twice as ...

New research explains why around half of people with asthma experience a "late phase" of symptoms several hours after exposure to allergens. New research led by scientists from Imperial College London ...

The new respiratory coronavirus COVID-19 is particularly worrying for the 2.7 million Australians who already suffer from asthma. That’s roughly one in nine people. Viral respiratory infections, in ...

For the first time, researchers have mapped the building blocks of the human lungs and airways, in both asthma patients and normal people. The research from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, University ...

I've had asthma ever since I was a child, and fortunately as I entered my adult years the severity of its onsets have reduced. Most people know that asthma results in a shortness of breath, but there ...

A patient who has chronic asthma says her chin itches whenever she coughs or wheezes. What might cause this? —Ronald Hirsch, MD, Elgin, Ill. Interesting question! Facial itching has been reported as a ...