The cost of medication to treat asthma, the chronic lung disease, is stopping one in six US adults from taking their ...

Despite being the third biggest killer in the UK, lung conditions currently only receive 2.5% of public investment spent on ...

Asthma hospitalisations among Māori have decreased, according to a new study, but experts warn there is still a long way to ...

Any attack can be life-threatening, whatever the trigger, and four people die from an asthma attack every day in the UK. Dr Whittamore says: “Every person with asthma will have a ...

Every 30 seconds, someone in the world will experience a flare-up of their asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

A group of 26 health professionals, is calling on the Government to improve access to and awareness of spirometry. It's a test used to investigate the cause of symptoms such as breathlessness, ...

Despite the positive findings, the research reveals a persistent two-and-a-half-fold disparity in asthma hospitalisation rates between Māori and non-Māori, indicating that while progress has been made ...

And, severe asthma attacks can be life-threatening. Asthma can be treated using medications, lifestyle treatments, and inhalers. Inhalers are handheld devices that get medicine directly into ...