WEDNESDAY, May 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Improved inhalers are now available to help control asthma and treat sudden attacks, but a new study shows that hardly anyone’s using them. The new inhalers combine inflammation-fighting corticosteroids with a long-acting drug called formoterol that opens up the airways, researchers report. TheseContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — It might be hoped that replacing a diesel school bus with a clean electric model would pay off for health and the environment. New research suggests that it does — and gives a dollar figure for that payoff. Replacing a diesel bus withContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Heat waves and heat domes are particularly dangerous to kids with asthma, a new study finds. Daytime heat waves are associated with 19% increased odds that a child with asthma will wind up in the hospital, researchers discovered. What’s more, heat waves thatContinue Reading
FRIDAY, May 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People with asthma who vape tend to develop the respiratory disease earlier in life than folks who never vaped, new research shows. Overall, asthmatic adults who said they’d vaped over the past month were over three times as likely to have developed asthmaContinue Reading
FRIDAY, May 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People in homes with gas or propane stoves regularly breathe in unhealthy levels of nitrogen dioxide, a new study says. Typical use of these stoves increases exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) by an estimated 4 parts per billion, averaged over a year, researchersContinue Reading
MONDAY, April 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Current and former smokers might lower their risk for emphysema if they adopt a highly nutritional plant-based diet, a new study shows. People with a history of smoking who adopted a plant-based diet had a 56% lower risk of developing emphysema, compared toContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — There’s no evidence that a COVID infection increases the risk of asthma in children, the first study to date on the subject finds. “We knew from a number of really nice studies over the last decade or more that respiratory viral infections areContinue Reading
MONDAY, April 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Doctors sometimes prescribe antibiotics to help treat a cough, but a new study shows the drugs won’t help reduce the severity or duration of coughing — even if a bacterial infection is the culprit. Lower respiratory tract infections that cause coughing have theContinue Reading
SATURDAY, April 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Preparing a kid for summer camp is already a daunting task, and it’s even more complicated if your child has allergies or asthma, experts say. “Kids with allergies and asthma need an extra layer of protection when they head off to summer camp,”Continue Reading
TUESDAY, March 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A protein that shuts down immune cells in the lungs could be key to a new treatment for asthma attacks, a new report says. The naturally occurring protein, called Piezo1, prevents a type of immune cell called type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s)Continue Reading