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Every day in the United States, 40,000 people miss school or work because of asthma, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.

Doctors are helping some asthma patients by using heat to reduce the amount of muscle tissue in the lung's air Every day in the United States, 40,000 people miss school or work because of asthma, according to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.

According to several newspapers, the inhaled drug Ventolin may not work for one in ten children with asthma.

Common asthma reliever drugs taken by millions of children around the world may increase the risk of asthma attacks in some patients with a particular genetic make-up, British scientists said yesterday.

An author of a new industry-funded study on the safety of a commonly prescribed type of inhaled asthma drug says the findings should be "reassuring" to patients who use them.

There are so many medications out there. We'll tell you what you need to know. i was prescribed spirva by a cardiologist about 3 years ago after finding out my asthma wasn't well controlled and was causing chest pain.

A major allergy and respiratory management company knowingly produced flawed clinical trials of FDA approved drugs currently on the market a Texas physician is charging.

Balancing the Benefits and Risks of Inhaled Long-Acting Beta-Agonists - The Influence of Values Judith M. Kramer, M.D., M.S. In December 2008, the Food and Drug Administration convened a joint meeting of the Pediatric Advisory Committee, the Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee, and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee to ...