Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) represent the leading chronic respiratory diseases of interest in the word, owing to high prevalence and high burden on the health system.

Scientists have found a new treatment for people with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that may be more effective than current options. Over the past 50 years, treatment options ...

Asthma is a chronic airway inflammation associated with respiratory symptoms like wheezing, shortness of breath, cough and chest tightness, that vary in intensity and time. Once a person has been ...

Although bronchial hyperresponsiveness to cholinergic agents is a main feature of asthma, the role of anticholinergic drugs in chronic asthma management has been largely underestimated.

A new method of scanning lungs is able to show the effects of treatment on lung function in real time and enable experts to ...

The cost of medication to treat asthma, the chronic lung disease, is stopping one in six US adults from taking their ...