asthma

The FDA is seeking advice this week from two of its advisory committees on how manufacturers of a major group of asthma drugs should study their potential risks.

NEW ORLEANS (MedPage Today) -- Underuse of objective testing may be a big factor in underdiagnosis of asthma in the elderly, an expert said.

NEW ORLEANS (MedPage Today) -- High folate levels in utero may increase a child's future asthma risk, while those in the child's early years make little difference, according to two studies reported here.

Preterm birth complicated by chorioamnionitis may modestly increase a child's risk of later asthma, researchers found.

A gene on chromosome one appears to be linked to moderate to severe persistent asthma in children (MedPage Today) -- the second such genetic locus associated with the disease.

Against expectations, asthma patients with different genotypes for the beta-2 adrenergic receptor all responded well to long-acting beta agonist (LABA) asthma drugs, researchers said.

MIAMI BEACH (MedPage Today) -- Children younger than 7 can successfully use devices that measure exhaled nitric oxide and monitor how well some treatments are controlling their asthma, a researcher reported here.

MIAMI BEACH (MedPage Today) -- Researchers suggested here that many people who are diagnosed with exercise-induced shortness of breath and asthma frequently may be misdiagnosed.

SAN DIEGO (MedPage Today) -- The prevalence of asthma among those who responded to the World Trade Center on 9/11 is about twice that found in the general population, researchers found.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (MedPage Today) -- An increasing number of patients with controlled diabetes, asthma, and other diseases are getting the green light for an activity that was once off limits: scuba diving.