Studies have found that emergency room visits for asthma-related problems increase in the winter months. Many asthma sufferers find that winter exacerbates their asthma. But when is an ER visit ...

Has your asthma ever acted up during or shortly after stormy weather? Turns out, there’s a perfectly good reason for that. Research out today links thunderstorms to worsening asthma attacks. Doctors ...

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 ...

When Jacqueline Vakil needed a refill for Flovent, her 4-year-old son’s asthma medicine, she couldn’t get it. The drugmaker GSK had stopped making the popular inhaler, back in January. To make matters ...

Living with asthma means your lungs play by different rules. What seems harmless to others could send you reaching for your rescue inhaler — or worse, racing to the ER. Yet millions of people with ...

A new study offers some of the first evidence that this weather-related condition is a concern in the United States. But there are ways to lower the risk. A new study suggests that severe ...

A new study finds that thunderstorms can trigger sharp increases in asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits, underscoring the importance of storm preparedness for people with asthma. The ...

The morning Jennifer Martinez headed to her regular spin class seemed like any other day. Within minutes of starting her workout, however, the 42-year-old marketing executive found herself in the back ...

Drugmaker GSK stopped making asthma inhaler Flovent earlier this year. That’s left patients struggling to find other medication their insurance... A discontinued asthma medication has patients ...