New research carried out at the University of Manchester has indicated a worrying trend amongst asthma sufferers...

Many young children who get a severe skin rash develop asthma months or years later. Doctors call the progression from eczema, or atopic dermatitis, to breathing problems the atopic march ...

On May 4th Media Planet, the independent report publishing house, produced a 16 page report entitled "Asthma and Allergies" that went out nationally in The Guardian newspaper. ...

Folic acid, or vitamin B9, essential for red blood cell health and long known to reduce the risk of spinal birth defects, may also suppress allergic reactions and lessen the severity of allergy and asthma symptoms, according to new research from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center ...

A disturbing three quarters of teachers are not completely confident about what to do if a child in their class has a potentially life-threatening asthma attack¹, yet asthma is the most common long-term condition affecting children in the UK and on average there are two children with asthma in every classroom ...

New research provides evidence for a link between vitamin D insufficiency and asthma severity ...

A relatively low dietary intake of vitamins A and C boosts the risk of asthma, suggests a systematic analysis of the available evidence, published ahead of print in the journal Thorax ...

It’s not too late to get involved in Asthma UK’s first ever fundraising week called Putting Asthma in the Limelight running from 2 – 10 May ...

Pregnant women who are stressed, particularly late in pregnancy, have an increased risk of their child going on to develop asthma, according to the latest research from Children of the 90s ...

Mouse gene leads to new breakthrough in allergy research. An international collaboration between scientists at the University of Dundee and research groups in Ireland and Japan has discovered a genetic defect in mice that leads to allergic inflammation, comparable to that seen in human eczema and related allergic diseases . ...

New research suggests that a widely used treatment for persistent acid reflux among asthmatics doesn’t actually improve their quality of life. The finding that as many as one-third of those studied showed no improvement makes a strong case arguing that physicians should change how they currently treat these patients. ...

The new England Journal of Medicine is tomorrow publishing a collection of articles on the groundbreaking new treatment Mepolizumab (see articles attached). Asthma UK’s Chief Medical advisor, Professor Ian Pavord, is the senior author of the study entitled: Mepolizumab and Exacerbations of Refractory Eosinophilic Asthma and below are his comments on Mepolizumab ...

Newborns whose first few months of life coincide with high pollen and mold seasons are at increased risk of developing early symptoms of asthma, suggests a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley ...

Up to 300,000 people suffering from severe asthma in the UK could benefit from taking antifungal medication already available from pharmacists, new research has found. University of Manchester scientists found that pills used to treat everyday fungal infections greatly improved symptoms ...

A study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University found an association between increasing levels of indoor particulate matter pollution and the severity of asthma symptoms among children ...

Many studies have shown that breastfeeding appears to reduce the chance of children developing asthma. But a newly published study led by a University of Alberta professor found that eating fast food more than once or twice a week negated the beneficial effects that breastfeeding has in protecting children from the respiratory disease ...

Taking one grass pollen tablet every day can alleviate hay fever and asthma in children. These are the results of a study by medical experts in the team led by Prof. Dr. Albrecht Bufe (Experimental Pneumology) at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum ...

A new study by researchers at Brigham Young University and Harvard School of Public Health shows that average life expectancy in 51 U.S. cities increased nearly three years over recent decades, and approximately five months of that increase came thanks to cleaner air ...

New research to be published in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that pre-school children are taking oral steroids unnecessarily. Steroids ineffective in young children with wheeze. New research, funded by Asthma UK, has found that steroid tablets do not reduce the symptoms of virus-induced wheezing in pre-school children ...

Regular exposure to hospital cleaning products and disinfectants significantly increases nurses' risks of developing asthma, indicates research published ahead of print in Occupational and Environmental Medicine ...

New guidance to help NHS and local authority commissioners ensure that people with long term conditions are more involved in decisions about their illness and treatment, has been issued by the Department of Health ...

Vicks® VapoRub®, the popular salve used to relieve symptoms of cough and congestion, may be harmful for infants and toddlers ...

Research funded by Asthma UK and published in Mucosal Immunology this week, has lead to the development of a vaccine treatment that can prevent asthma-like symptoms in mice ...

Colds and flu have overtaken sex as the number one most viewed asthma trigger on the Asthma UK website for the first time since the updated site went live, 3 years ago ...

Up to 150,000 people suffering from severe asthma in the UK could benefit from taking antifungal medication already available from pharmacists, new research has found ...

Children of mothers who took acid-suppressive drugs during pregnancy had a 1.5 times higher incidence of asthma when compared to children who were not exposed to the drugs in utero, finds a large population-based study by researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston ...

A hypoallergenic milk formula that could stop the development of eczema in babies is being trialed at St Mary’s and Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospitals in London, part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust ...

Researchers in Sheffield have made a major breakthrough in understanding why respiratory disease is so common in young children ...

The FSA Board will recommend to Ministers that Government advice on avoiding peanuts during pregnancy, breastfeeding and early life, where there is a family history of allergy, is revised in light of new evidence ...

Budesonide sprays can be regarded as safe for pregnancy - other asthma drugs have not been as well studied though. Women can usually keep using the same asthma drugs they were using before they got pregnant ...

New research funded by Asthma UK, shows that breathing techniques can help to treat people who continue to experience asthma symptoms in spite of current drug treatments ...

It is said that timing is everything, and that certainly appears to be true for autumn infants. Children who are born four months before the height of cold and flu season have a greater risk of developing childhood asthma than children born at any other time of year, according to new research ...

The British Lung Foundation is calling for everyone over 35 with Asthma or the progressive illness Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) to be retested following evidence of confusion over diagnosis and treatment of the two respiratory diseases ...

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 ...