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.

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 ...

"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.

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 ...

Of these costs, 92% come from asthma medications ... Big picture: low-emission zones reduced medication costs for children by about 30 million euros until 2017. In similar news, research has ...

Viruses and respiratory infections are a lead trigger for wheezing in children with asthma. So if your child has asthma, you really want to protect them, give them the flu vaccine, make sure that ...

With non-Hispanic white children as a reference, we looked at rates of eczema, food allergy, asthma, and allergic rhinitis — four of the most common allergic conditions — in close to 500,000 ...

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 ...