NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Overweight children seen in the ER for an asthma flare-up are more likely to be admitted to the hospital than their non-overweight peers, according to a report in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Metformin decreases airway hyper-responsiveness and remodeling. Patients with asthma were aged 6 to 17 years ...

In the first seven weeks of school, the rates of asthma-related emergency room visits spike — peaking around the third week — but that spike is even more pronounced in neighborhoods with increased ...

Children with asthma who use at-home monitoring are around half as likely to visit the emergency department or be hospitalized, compared to those who only receive care from their medical team, ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Asthma-related emergency room visits spike every year when kids return to school and are exposed to respiratory viruses like common colds and the flu — and the increase is ...

AROUND 2 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE U.S. ARE LIVING WITH SEVERE ASTHMA.WITH THE SEASON CHANGING AND DIFFERENT WEATHER PATTERNS ON ...

Preventative telemedicine could play a key role in helping school-aged children with asthma manage their condition. A recent study published in JAMA Pediatrics, reported that kids who used ...

September is the peak month for asthma attacks that send kids to hospital emergency rooms. Experts call it the September epidemic. "The most common precipitant of a bad attack of asthma is infection ...