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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

World Asthma Day: Normally, when people think of asthma, breathlessness is often the first symptom that comes to mind. But that’s not the whole story. This World Asthma Day, doctors are urging Indians ...

Dr Navitha Ramesh, of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, reports the latest research on biologic therapy in patients with asthma as presented at CHEST 2022. Dr ...

Glenview, Illinois –The American College of Chest Physicians ® (CHEST) recently released a new clinical guideline on biologic management in severe asthma. Published in the journal CHEST ®, the ...

Asthma and allergies often go hand-in-hand. Asthma is a disease of the branches of the windpipe (bronchial tubes), which carry air in and out of the lungs. There are several different types of asthma.

A 48-year-old woman with no smoking history reported cough and feeling short of breath with exertion beginning several months before her clinic visit. It was not clear whether she experienced any ...

Difficulty breathing. Chest tightness. Wheezing. These are just a few of the hallmark symptoms of asthma, a chronic inflammation of the bronchial airways that can make breathing a struggle. Asthma ...

Possible causes of a sore throat and chest pain can include infections, acid reflux, and asthma. Some causes may need medical attention. In this article, we explore conditions that can cause chest ...

Objective: The asthma practice guidelines developed by the National Institutes of Health include a system for classifying asthma severity. The goal of the present study was to assess the interrater ...

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the conducting airways in which many cells of the innate and adaptive immune systems act together with epithelial cells to cause bronchial hyper-reactivity ...