Doctors are to be taught to avoid giving asthma patients traditional inhalers if possible because of the greenhouse gases ...

Patients with asthma and COPD routinely switch from pressurized metered-dose inhalers to dry powder inhalers and vice versa.

Inhalers used to treat symptoms of respiratory disease can be potent sources of greenhouse gases. Drugmakers are planning to ...

Doctors could be taught to limit the use of traditional asthma inhalers due to their environmental impact. This initiative, led by the University of Glasgow and coordinated by the European ...

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 ...

Maternal exercise is known to affect fetal activity and fetal breathing movements, which support lung development. "We don't yet know why maternal exercise manifests as a reduced risk of asthma in ...

Nearly 28 million people in the U.S. have asthma, or about one in 12 people — and depending on where you live, the condition may be more difficult to manage. The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of ...

Work with your doctor to create an asthma action plan. This plan will include preventive measures to manage your symptoms. For example, your doctor may have you use a daily inhaler for long-term ...

For Shelbi Inan, breathing easy is not always so easy to do. At the age of 13, she was diagnosed with asthma. Since moving to California, her asthma appears to have worsened. "More often than not ...

Their analysis shows that children's risk of developing asthma later in life can be more reliably predicted by observing the dynamic development of symptoms during the first year of life.