If you have asthma, summer can be a difficult season. Heat and humidity can affect your airways, with hot air causing them to tighten and narrow. This can trigger wheezing, breathing difficulty (such ...

The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) supports the development of clinical practice guidelines based on the best available science that specialists and health care providers can use to ...

Dr. Weinberger is Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonary Division at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa. His primary area of research ...

Learn key strategies for managing childhood asthma and responding to emergencies to help keep kids safe and healthy.

In fact, in updated guidelines for asthma treatment issued in December 2020, the National Institutes of Health recommended SCIT in addition to standard medication for people over age 5 with mild to ...

Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood and, in the latter part of the 20th century, reached epidemic proportions. Asthma is generally believed to result from gene-environment ...

LOWELL, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Biometry Inc. (myBiometry), an asthma and COPD diagnostic and remote monitoring company, announced that it has successfully raised $5 million in an oversubscribed ...

Inmates in Nevada prisons are being denied necessary medical care and medications, according to providers and a memo provided ...

The data will inform an upcoming asthma guideline from the Joint Task Force on Practice Parameters—a collaborative partnership between the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and ...

This latest revision of national guidance on asthma management was produced jointly by the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) in October 2014 and ...