Asthma can cause various symptoms, including coughing and shortness of breath. Some people can also experience a sense of chest tightness or pain as a result of asthma symptoms. Asthma is a chronic ...

Asthma affects millions of people around the world, and according to a United Kingdom-based organization, the health condition is long-term and anyone who has had asthma since they were kids will ...

A chest X-ray cannot diagnose asthma but can provide valuable information during a severe attack or when someone is ...

Asthma is a respiratory condition caused by inflammation and constriction (narrowing) of the airways. It can cause symptoms such as shortness of breath, coughing, or wheezing. Asthma is a long-term ...

Children with mild asthma at low risk for severe exacerbations may not need daily or as-needed ICS, as GINA guidelines recommend.

The use of chest radiographs on millions of children who visited emergency departments (EDs) with moderate to severe asthma increased 2.4-fold during a 15-year period, according to a retrospective ...

Every time you breathe in, air enters your nose and mouth. It flows down your throat and into a series of air passageways called bronchial tubes. Those tubes need to be open for the air to reach your ...

A chest that hurts when a person coughs is relatively common and can result from muscle strain due to the cough. However, it can be a sign of pleurisy, pneumonia, and other serious conditions. In many ...

When Mia Fritsch-Anderson was growing up, much of her childhood involved frequent trips to the hospital to receive breathing treatments. Diagnosed with severe asthma at age one, Anderson says her ...

Two posters presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting 2023 showed how real-world exacerbation rates in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) dropped after patients started using a single ...