Given asthmatic children’s susceptibility to respiratory illnesses like the flu, it was assumed they’d be more prone to severe COVID-19 infection. But a new Australian study suggests that, compared to ...

The pope struggled to maintain a sufficient oxygen level when breathing. Pope Francis suffered a "prolonged" asthmatic respiratory crisis Saturday morning with doctors having to supply oxygen, the ...

Farai Chideya speaks with U.S. Women's Track & Field Coach Jeanette Bolden. In 1984, Bolden won a gold medal in the Olympics, even though she was an asthmatic. Bolden explains how she overcame that ...

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 ...

Individuals with persistent asthma have a higher burden of carotid artery plaque and higher levels of inflammatory biomarkers when compared with those without asthma, an analysis of the Multi-Ethnic ...

People with asthma who vape tend to develop the respiratory disease earlier in life than folks who never vaped, new research shows. Overall, asthmatic adults who said they'd vaped over the past month ...

Professor, Respiratory Medicine, UNSW Sydney and Clinical Professor at the University of Sydney, George Institute for Global Health The new respiratory coronavirus COVID-19 is particularly worrying ...

Male C57BL/6 mice (6 weeks old, 20±2 g, specific pathogen free) were purchased from SLAC Laboratory Animal Corporation (Shanghai, China). Five mice were housed in one cage in a climate-controlled room ...

Scientists are gaining a better understanding of the complex relationship between cat exposure and the risk of developing asthma. For many years, scientists thought that cat exposure increased a child ...

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 ...