The Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) is calling for improved collaboration and funding to prevent and treat asthma. In World Asthma Day on May 3, FIRS says stakeholders must collaborate locally and globally…

   World Asthma Day is an annual event organized by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) to improve asthma awareness and care around the world.    

This review on the association between sickle cell disease (SCD) and asthma focusses on: 1) Our current understanding of the epidemiology of asthma, wheezing, airway obstruction, and airway responsiveness among…

Hannah M. C. Schreier, Edith Chen and Gregory E. Miller Asthma Research and Practice20162:7 DOI: 10.1186/s40733-016-0022-x Abstract Background Child maltreatment is a common problem with known adverse consequences, yet its contributions to the development and course of pediatric asthma are…

        Article alert   The following new article has just been published in Asthma Research and Practice Research    CXC chemokine superfamily induced by Interferon-γ in asthma:…

    Asthma Research and Practice 2016 2:5 DOI: 10.1186/s40733-016-0020-z   Jose A. Castro-Rodriguez Email author, Adnan Custovic and Francine M. Ducharme Abstract In the present review, we focus on evidence-based data for the use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), leukotriene receptor antagonist…

Join WAO at Interasma for the COSA Symposium: Approaches to Severe Asthma. WAO experts will present on severe asthma during Interasma’s World Congress on Asthma (WCA) in Madrid, Spain, on…

XXIII World Congress of AsthmaMarch 12 – 15, 2016 Madrid Spain   Madrid is hosting the World Congress of Asthma, organized by the Global Asthma Association / Interasma from March…

Congress Venue Meliá Castilla Calle del Capitán Haya, 43 Madrid 28020  Spain Climate and Dress Code Madrid and its metropolitan area has a Mediterranean climate with continental influences, with mild…