Asthma isn't just about your lungs. Discover the hidden emotional loop that can worsen symptoms and how to manage the cycle.

Smoking and asthma make a particularly harmful combination. People with asthma often ask if they can get rid of the disease if they quit smoking. It's a reasonable question, seeing as there are many ...

Can vitamin A and D help slow lung aging? A new study on asthma in adults and children has found an epigenetic link that may ...

Higher levels of circulating vitamin A are linked to better lung function in children and adults with asthma, while vitamin D shows similar benefits in adults, including slower biological aging, finds ...

One of the most important things you can do, besides taking medication, is learn to identify your asthma triggers. For some ...

Neuroimmunology, the study of interactions between the nervous and immune systems, is a rapidly growing field enabling new ...

Despite a wealth of available treatments to control the symptoms of chronic asthma, the lung disease has no cure. The discovery of an unexpected cause of asthma could change that. A glitch in the ...

A high-pitched whistling sound when you breathe is the first tip-off that air is fighting to make its way into or out of your lungs. That sound is aptly named wheezing, and it is something that people ...

Your asthma isn’t just asthma anymore. Living in a city has essentially created a whole new category of breathing problems that your grandparents never had to deal with. Urban asthma behaves ...

Asthma affects millions of people worldwide, and adult women experience the condition more frequently—and often more severely—than men. Symptoms can also fluctuate during puberty, pregnancy and ...