A recent multicenter clinical trial has uncovered inflammatory pathways that contribute to asthma flare-ups in children that occur despite treatment, according to findings published in JAMA Pediatrics ...

The implementation of a new integrated care pathway for paediatric acute asthma led to an increased use of metered-dose inhalers (MDIs) with a holding chamber and improved routine severity or control ...

Asthma is an enormous public health problem that continues to grow larger, in part because scientists don't fully understand how it is caused. Existing therapies don't cure the disease and often don't ...

As the English poet John Donne famously wrote in 1624, “No organ is an island.” Or at least, that’s what he would have written if he had been a psychoneuroimmunologist instead of a poet. Today, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “At present, we lack noninvasive tests to identify asthma subtypes or endotypes based on these cell types in ...

The findings suggest that dampening eosinophilic and T2 inflammatory responses result in increases in several alternative inflammatory pathways that contribute to residual exacerbations in children ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nasal sampling enables clinicians to gather genetic samples that could be used ...

Viral respiratory infection causes severe asthma attacks in almost all patients with asthma -- a reaction classically attributed to T cells of the adaptive immune system. Now, scientists have ...

GPs have been advised to stop prescribing blue reliever inhalers alone for newly-diagnosed asthma. Instead, they should offer a low-dose combination of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) and formoterol to ...