Medically reviewed by Daniel More, MD Many people with asthma as children go into long periods of remission, with infrequent ...

Asthma is the most common medical diagnosis among hospitalized children. In the USA, asthma has accounted for approximately 15% of nonsurgical admissions to hospital in the pediatric age group.

"This causes recurrent episodes of coughing, wheezing, and chest tightness," says Dr. Laura Conrad, director of the Pediatric Asthma Center at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in New York.

Asthma comes in different subtypes, but diagnosing those subtypes — also known as endotypes — has historically been difficult. Newly published research in JAMA presents an alternative: a nasal ...

Phenotyping children with asthma based on rhinoconjunctivitis symptoms shows that rhinoconjunctivitis may not always be allergy driven.

In children, there have been concerns about how researchers obtain results in asthma testing. The procedure can be deemed invasive to children as it usually involves a genetic analysis of a lung ...

Asthma is the most common chronic disease of children. Asthma causes more hospitalizations than any other medical problem in children. Asthma is associated with rhinitis and atopic dermatitis as ...