Asthma can cause various symptoms, including coughing and shortness of breath. Some people can also experience a sense of chest tightness or pain as a result of asthma symptoms. Asthma is a chronic ...

A chest X-ray cannot diagnose asthma but can provide valuable information during a severe attack or when someone is hospitalized with asthma complications. A chest X-ray can also differentiate asthma ...

Spontaneous pneumomediastinum (SPM) refers to the presence of free air in the mediastinum without preceding trauma or iatrogenic cause.

Getting the Most From the "Gold Standard" Occupational asthma is not a rare disorder. Work-related asthma is now the most prevalent occupational lung disorder in industrialized nations. [1] The ...

Two posters presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting 2023 showed how real-world exacerbation rates in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) dropped after patients started using a single ...

A chest that hurts when a person coughs is relatively common and can result from muscle strain due to the cough. However, it can be a sign of pleurisy, pneumonia, and other serious conditions. In many ...

When Mia Fritsch-Anderson was growing up, much of her childhood involved frequent trips to the hospital to receive breathing treatments. Diagnosed with severe asthma at age one, Anderson says her ...

A family medicine Specialist at Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) has stressed the importance of chronic disease patients, particularly those with asthma and allergies, paying close attention to ...

However, most low-molecular-weight chemical sensitizers induce asthma through mechanisms that are poorly understood, despite a phenotype suggesting sensitization. Diisocyanates are important ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The addition of oral azithromycin to standard treatment improved asthma control and reduced exacerbations ...

Our choice of living has made us vulnerable to many lifestyle diseases. Smoking, no physical activity, food preferences and environmental factors like dust storm and pollution are making our lungs ...

Over 90% of the 8,000 patients referred to Hamad Medical Corporation's (HMC) Chest Clinic last year had acute asthma, including many diagnosed with adult-onset asthma. World Asthma Day takes place ...