Results came within 5 percent of commercial devices, meaning it already meets the medical community’s standards for accuracy People suffering from asthma or other chronic lung problems are typically only able to get a measure [...]

UCSF-Led Research Team Targets Physiological Factors that Lead to Asthma Attack A new study that identifies ways to reduce the factors that lead to an asthma attack gives hope to asthma sufferers. A UCSF researcher [...]

A synthetic, anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic family of drugs to combat a variety of illnesses, while avoiding detrimental side effects, has been developed by a Hebrew University of Jerusalem researcher. The researcher is Saul Yedgar, who [...]

Startling results of a research trial in Bradford into the effectiveness of a drug to treat severe allergic asthma have been presented to the European Respiratory Society congress in Vienna. Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation [...]

Could help asthmatics fight infections that trigger 80% of asthma attacks Details of a treatment that could help asthmatics fight infections that trigger 80% of asthma attacks, developed by University of Southampton spin-out company Synairgen, [...]

Could such antibody-based treatments be useful against some autoimmune diseases and asthma?   Newfound details of the immune system suggest a role for never-before-considered drug classes in the treatment of allergic and autoimmune diseases, according [...]

These new results validate the whole potential for the use of this new nanovector in DNA vaccination Asthma is a chronic inflammatory and respiratory disease caused by an abnormal reactivity to allergens in the environment. [...]

The discovery also raises the possibility of developing new anti-inflammatory drugs Scientists have discovered a missing link between the body’s biological clock and sugar metabolism system, a finding that may help avoid the serious side [...]

Showed significant decreases in nitric oxide and immunoglobulin E levels Asthmatics have it hard enough when they’re awake, having to periodically use their inhalers, or remove themselves from situations that could trigger an attack. For [...]

Every year, thousands of people die in the from asthma attacks   Every year, thousands of people die in the U.S. from asthma attacks, even though they are using good medications and have it under [...]

PEOPLE who are worried about bad breath often reach for a toothbrush, a Tic Tac or an Altoid. But in the future, personal breath monitoring may include far more than breath fresheners. Scientists are building [...]

As health officials assessed the impact of potentially dangerous levels of smog across the country at the start of the weekend, an invention that turns buildings into pollution-absorbing “sponges” could offer help in the future. High [...]