World COPD Day this year provides the occasion for the launch of a website for European citizens to check national and local air quality and to learn the steps they can take to minimise any adverse effects ...

A study released by researchers at the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH) at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health shows that developing antibodies to cockroach and mouse proteins is associated with a greater risk for wheeze, hay fever, and eczema in preschool urban children as young as three years of age ...

Asthma UK is calling on the NHS to take crucial steps to safeguard the health of Black and minority ethnic (BME) groups who are being let down by their current services...

The AIM-quoted drug discovery company Verona Pharma plc has signed a contract to begin clinical trials in humans with RPL554, its potential ground-breaking drug for the treatment of asthma and allergic rhinitis (hay fever)...

Use of paracetamol in the first year of life in later childhood, is associated with risk of asthma, rhinoconjunctivitis (RC), and eczema at age 6-7 years...

Expectant mothers who eat nut products like peanut butter daily during pregnancy increase their children’s risk over developing asthma by more than fifty percent over women who rarely or never consume nut products during pregnancy, according to new research from the Netherlands ...

An increasing number of studies have shown a reduced risk of allergies, hay fever, asthma and eczema in farmers' children and adolescents...

Mothers with asthma who decide to use day care for their infants may feel some assurance from recent findings by researchers at the Arizona Respiratory Center at The University of Arizona College of Medicine...

For the first time, a study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, is linking asthma with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among adults...

Could you actually be allergic to work? If you experience symptoms of allergies or asthma in the workplace, you may suffer from occupational asthma...

Children whose mothers are chronically stressed during their early years have a higher asthma rate than their peers, regardless of their income, gender or other known asthma risk factors ...

Air pollution from diesel traffic can have harmful effects on the health of asthmatics according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (December 2007) ...

For the first time, adults aged 18 years and older, suffering from asthma are able to control and relieve their symptoms using a single inhaler. Symbicort® (budesonide/formoterol) Maintenance And Reliever Therapy – known as Symbicort SMART®– is a new approach, which has the potential to help suitable* patients manage their asthma more effectively without the need for multiple inhalers ...

Scientists at King's have discovered a protein that is known to increase appetite in cells which are closely associated with asthma. The research, which is funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and published online this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could explain a suspected link between asthma and obesity ...