Thunderstorms increase risk of asthma

Asthma attacks brought on by stress

The more stress a child is under, the more likely he or she is to suffer from asthma attacks. ...

Relaxation and better breathing could reduce asthma attacks

Asthma sufferers could reduce the number of attacks just by learning to relax and change the way they breathe, researchers have discovered.

Children: Pollen and lack of exercise can cause asthma

Researchers have this week got a step closer to understanding asthma, and have pinpointed two likely causes.

Hayfever: pollen allergy linked to heart disease

Hayfever may not such a benign condition after all. Researchers in the Netherlands have discovered a link between death from several causes and daily...

How medicine treats asthma

The conventional treatment of asthma relies on a two-pronged approach. The first is to eliminate the ‘triggers’, which provoke asthma attacks in the f...

Asthma: a breath of fresh air

If ever a disease were misunderstood by modern medicine, it is asthma. Although doctors finally have begun to accept that asthma may be caused by an a...