With a solid basis for why we believe someone has asthma, we can improve the specificity of the diagnostic tests we then use ...

GP practices are facing confusion over different approaches to asthma diagnosis set out in the QOF and in the new UK joint ...

Asthma affects more than 260M people worldwide and nearly 28M people in the U.S. alone, where, on average, 10 people die from attacks of the chronic disease each day.

This study identifies key differences in nasal fungi composition in asthma and allergy patients, offering insights into their ...

Healthcare professionals diagnose severe asthma if regular ... conditions that have similar symptoms. Read more about testing for asthma. The focus of asthma treatment is to control the symptoms.

Patients may experience smoldering lung destruction despite well-controlled asthma. With emerging data, the diagnostic criteria transcribed by an International Expert Committee in 2013 are the ...

Despite a fall in the number of people with asthma over the past decade who say that cost has stopped them taking their meds ...

The directions say simple respiratory tests should be used to diagnose asthma when people first show symptoms, before ...

Despite a decline in cost-related medication non-adherence among asthma patients, financial hardship continues to impact one ...

The vet will conduct a thorough physical examination and may recommend x-rays or other diagnostic tests to rule out other ...

"It was recently estimated that four people die from asthma every day in the UK. Its variability in conjunction with there still being no single consistently accurate diagnostic test for asthma can ...

Prevalence rates for early childhood asthma in the United States show marked racial/ethnic and socio-economic disparities that taper with age.