Excessive use of reliever inhalers for asthma is linked to a significantly increased risk of dying from the disease, a new study revealed today. Researchers found that over-use of short acting ...

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

The finding was independent of the use of maintenance therapy with inhaled ... of people with asthma. The researchers – which have published their work in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical ...

Massachusetts families are still struggling to find alternatives almost a year after GlaxoSmithKline canceled a widely ...

An injection given during some asthma and COPD attacks is more effective than the current treatment of steroid tablets.

Despite a decline in cost-related medication non-adherence among asthma patients, financial hardship continues to impact one ...

The Allergy and Asthma Network defines severe asthma — despite using standard treatments — as those who still require: both high dose inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting beta-2 agonists or ...

To help prevent an asthma attack once you know your triggers follow your asthma action plan and your medications as ...

The independent guideline committee looked at evidence which showed using the combined inhalers when required led to people suffering fewer severe asthma attacks. Professor Jonathan Benger ...