Virginia A. Schad, PharmD, RPh The pathogenesis of cough variant asthma and classical asthma may be related to genes such as FCER1A, HDC, and IL4, according to study results published in the Journal of…

Brandon May  The American Lung Association’s (ALA) 22nd annual “State of the Air” report shows that approximately 135 million people in the United States — or, 4 in 10 Americans…

Uncovering Asthma Misconceptions World Asthma Day (WAD) (May 5, 2021) is organized by the Global Initiative for Asthma, (GINA) (www.ginasthma.org), a World Health Organization collaborative organization founded in 1993.  WAD…

Brandon May Hemopexin was an effective biomarker protein capable of diagnosing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and differentiating COPD from asthma, according to study results published in Allergy, Asthma & Immunology…

Erol A. Gaillard, Claudia E. Kuehni, Steve Turner, Myrofora Goutaki, Karl A. Holden, Carmen C.M. de Jong, Christiane Lex, David K.H. Lo, Jane S. Lucas, Fabio Midulla, Rebeca Mozun, Giorgio Piacentini, David Rigau, Bart Rottier, Mike Thomas, Thomy Tonia, Jakob Usemann, Ozge Yilmaz, Angela Zacharasiewicz, Alexander Moeller European Respiratory Journal 2021; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.04173-2020 Abstract Diagnosing asthma in children represents an important clinical challenge. There is no single gold standard test to confirm…

Asthma is a major public health problem affecting more than 350 million patients around the world. Its prevalence and impact are particularly on the rise in urbanized regions and expanding…

Respiratory Research volume 22, Article number: 108 (2021)  Research – Open Access Heinrich Worth, Carl-Peter Criée, Claus F. Vogelmeier, Peter Kardos, Eva-Maria Becker, Karel Kostev, Ingo Mokros & Andrea Schneider  Background Overuse of short-acting beta-2 agonists (SABA), which do not treat the underlying…

Rita Aghjayan High-risk children living in urban neighborhoods in the United States develop specific phenotypes of respiratory health vs disease, which may link environmental exposures in early life to childhood…