Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Studies have found that emergency room visits for asthma-related problems increase in the winter months. Many asthma sufferers ...

Asthma can be caused by genetics, like having a parent with asthma. Smoking or being around smoke can make asthma worse. Being overweight increases the risk of asthma due to pressure on the lungs.

A major study of around 260,000 women shows that taking the progesterone-only contraceptive pill can increase asthma attacks in some women. The research, published in ERJ Open Research, shows an ...

Asthma is the most common chronic airway disease worldwide, imposing substantial clinical, societal, and economic burden.

Breathing can feel normal for weeks, then suddenly turn into a race for air. That uncertainty is one of the hardest parts of living with asthma. Even when symptoms seem quiet, an attack can still ...

Researchers at Mass General Brigham and Karolinska Institutet have identified a new method to predict asthma exacerbations with a high degree of accuracy. The study is published in Nature ...

A groundbreaking international study has shown that a 2-in-1 budesonide-formoterol inhaler is far more effective than the standard salbutamol inhaler in children with mild asthma, cutting attacks by ...

New therapeutic 'cocktails' may provide long-lasting relief for treatment-resistant asthma and other immune system inflammatory diseases. Current asthma treatments don't work in all patients, and they ...

Studies have found that emergency room visits for asthma-related problems increase in the winter months. Many asthma sufferers find that winter exacerbates their asthma. But when is an ER visit ...