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 ...

Asthmatic smokers who quit the habit can reverse lung damage that exacerbates their breathing difficulties, regardless of how long and how often they smoked in the past, a Dutch study found. The lungs ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's perfectly fine for asthmatic children to take up sports. In fact, many elite and Olympic athletes are asthmatic, like British marathon runner Paula Radcliffe and American swimmer Amy Van Dyken.

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 ...

Depending on the age of asthmatic children, on their exposure to molds or dampness in their bedroom, and on the severity of their asthma, vitamin C has greater or smaller beneficial effect against ...

They also found that inducing a second asthmatic trigger during a bronchial spasm at a precise time will actually cause the smooth muscle to relax and stop the spasm. The treatments for bronchospam ...