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.
With a solid basis for why we believe someone has asthma, we can improve the specificity of the diagnostic tests we then use ...
Despite a decline in cost-related medication non-adherence among asthma patients, financial hardship continues to impact one ...
Despite a fall in the number of people with asthma over the past decade who say that cost has stopped them taking their meds ...
Spirometry is a test used to investigate the cause of symptoms such as breathlessness, cough and wheeze, and is essential for ...
It’s more than 10 years since the publication of the National Review of Asthma Deaths, which revealed that most deaths from asthma in the UK were preventable.1 In the years since, many of the problems ...
Jinger Duggar Vuolo and her husband, Jeremy Vuolo, detailed their 4-year-old daughter Evangeline’s recent ER visit on their podcast. Jinger noted, "I think that the thing that really caught us off ...
When a person’s asthma is severe or isn’t managed well by typical protocols, they may be a good candidate for pulmonary ...
Residents of Timișoara, in western Romania, can undergo free spirometry tests in a special tram as part of 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 as prescribed, financial hardship still remains a deterrent for 1 in 6 with ...