That familiar tightness in your chest. The wheeze that seems to announce itself at the most inconvenient moments. The inhaler you clutch like a lifeline. Living with asthma can feel like your lungs ...

Buteyko breathing uses breath retention exercises to control the speed and volume of your breath. This helps you breathe more slowly, calmly, and effectively. A Ukrainian doctor, Konstantin Buteyko, ...

You’re not imagining things if it feels like your asthma is worse in the winter. You’re also not alone, as more than 25 million Americans suffer from asthma. This chronic disease causes the lung’s ...

A spirometer tests the amount of air coming out of your lungs and how fast it comes out to diagnose asthma. Unlike a spirometer, an exhaled nitric oxide test machine measures the nitric oxide in your ...

An anti-inflammation injectable drug called dupilumab can reduce mucus buildup and improve breathing among asthma patients, a ...

The wrinkle-smoother Botox might help alleviate certain symptoms of asthma, researchers say. The drug will be tested on asthmatic patients who also suffer problems with their voice box, which can go ...

The 2025 Lawrence and Nancy Golden Memorial Lectureship on Mind-Body Medicine focused on the psychobiology of asthma.

Learn about common asthma triggers, from dust mites to food allergens, that may be hiding in your child’s backpack, and ...

Approximately 339 million people around the world are afflicted with asthma, with asthma-related mortality affecting the lives of three families each day. Staggeringly, around two-thirds of these ...

Asthma is a respiratory condition caused by inflammation and constriction (narrowing) of the airways. It can cause symptoms such as shortness of breath, coughing, or wheezing. Asthma is a long-term ...

For decades, scientists believed molecules called leukotrienes were the main culprits behind asthma’s airway-constricting ...

Elizabeth Mendoza, a 32-year-old Mexican immigrant, has lived in a two-bedroom basement apartment in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, for seven years. Her 14-year-old daughter and her 6-year-old niece both have ...