A team of researchers working with the CHILD Cohort Study (CHILD) has developed a simple new symptom-based screening tool that detects asthma risk in children as young as two years of age. The ...

Adults and older children with asthma can take objective measures of symptoms such as peak expiratory flow (PEF), the volume of airflow in one forced exhalation, at home. This provides a more complete ...

In the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, asthma affects 6.5% of children and for some, it can be life-threatening. There is no known cure for asthma, which means that ...

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Can asthma symptoms be monitored reliably at home? Until now, the answer would have been yes, but not in preschool-age patients. Recent findings in the Annals of Family Medicine suggest that this ...

Much like the gut, skin and mouth, our respiratory system is home to its own unique microbial population, which is being increasingly implicated in a number of diseases, from cystic fibrosis to ...

May 2 (Reuters) - The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that has yet to be certified by peer ...

Asthma is associated with memory problems in children, a new study has found. Further, the early onset of asthma might worsen potential memory deficits in kids, researchers found. This is the first ...

Any parent of a child with asthma knows all too well that for kids, living with asthma can mean dealing with symptoms like shortness of breath and coughing that can interfere with playing or sleeping.