asthma

(MedPage Today) -- The impact that motor vehicle exhaust has on asthma costs is much bigger than once thought, researchers warned.

(MedPage Today) -- Rapid weight gain during the first months of life is associated with an increased risk of asthma, a prospective Dutch cohort study suggested.

All asthma is not the same.

As a result, a new study shows many people with asthma are not helped by corticosteroid medication prescribed to control their breathing problems.

Overweight children may be more likely to develop asthma by the time they go to school, but losing weight early on may counter that risk.

(MedPage Today) -- A program intended to improve access to care for children with asthma, which included a mobile clinic called the Breathmobile, led to slight and transient benefits, a randomized study found.

BOSTON (MedPage Today) -- Repeat hospitalizations or emergency room visits for children with asthma were significantly more common among those with single parents, although income appeared primarily to blame, a researcher said here.

People with asthma may find that their breathing gets worse after they start a statin drug to lower cholesterol, a small new study shows.

(MedPage Today) -- Depressive symptoms along with unhealthy behaviors are common among individuals with asthma, a telephone survey conducted in Israel found.

(MedPage Today) -- Children's hospitals do very well on two of the three quality care measures for inpatient asthma care but get lower marks on the third, researchers found.

(MedPage Today) -- More than two-thirds of 1,234 MedPage Today readers said the government overreacted by removing the last over-the-counter asthma inhaler from the market, according to last week's survey results.