IT’S not really Christmas until the tree is up. But for some, welcoming the return of their festive foliage could also invite a host of irritating – and potentially dangerous – ...

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

The study - conducted by the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand (MRINZ) - shows a 32 percent drop in asthma-related hospital discharges of Māori, and a 23 percent decrease amongst non-Māori, ...

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 ...

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 ...