NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Asthma is known to be a major health issue for children in inner cities, but a new study suggests that it may be an even bigger problem for poor rural children. Looking at ...

Asthma is a common chronic condition affecting millions of children worldwide. While many parents worry about the long-term implications of their child’s asthma, there’s hope: some children do grow ...

In the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, asthma affects 6.5% of children and for some, it can be life-threatening. There is no known cure for asthma, which means that ...

Children in this country should not die of asthma. But 145 did in 2021; three in four were Black or Hispanic. Long Island is one place where such disparities are hidden within affluence: Asthma ...

Asthma is a widespread respiratory condition affecting approximately 5.4 million people in the UK, and 1.1 million are children. 1,2 Asthma is the most widespread long-term condition among young ...

Summer camp isn?t all fun in the sun. The American Lung Association of Maryland is hosting a weeklong summer camp geared toward educating low-income children with asthma about their disease. “Having ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children with asthma are no more likely than their peers to suffer mental health problems – provided their asthma is well-controlled, according to Dutch researchers. “The ...

Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) has issued a ‘sincere apology’ for shortcomings in the care of a Dublin teenager who died ...

In children with asthma, weighted incidence of pneumonia hospitalization per 10,000 patient-years was 14.5 in children using ICS and 14.6 in those not using ICS. In children with asthma, there is no ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation Monday that will make inhalers free for many New Yorkers starting in 2027.

In a longitudinal analysis, children with earlier onset of asthma had lower rates of memory improvements as measured by the Picture Sequence Memory Test compared with those without asthma (β = -0.17, ...

A recent review article, "Clinical Tools to Assess Asthma Control in Children," [1] collates multiple subjective and objective measures that clinicians can use to determine whether a patient has ...