Asthma Blog

It's spring and that means tree pollen is in the air – big time. And THAT means that seasonal allergy symptoms and asthma symptoms could be on the rise as ... Read More

May is Asthma & Allergy Awareness Month in the United States. Since it's peak allergy season, it's a great time to increase public understanding of asthma and allergies, as well ... Read More

Air pollution is both a known risk factor for asthma AND an everyday irritant for kids and adults who have asthma already. Now a new study, supported by the U.S. ... Read More

The Olympic games are coming this summer and will be hosted in Beijing, China, a densely populated, air polluted urban environment. As a result, many elite athletes are worried about ... Read More

I've talked periodically in this blog about the new HFA inhalers, and I have an article on them in my regular content on this site too: A New Look, Feel, & ... Read More

A retrospective review by the Cochrane Group was published this week in Copenhagen. This type of review looks at the data for many similar past studies and attempts to draw ... Read More

Over the past year or so, the US has been phasing out the traditional, CFC-type metered dose inhaler for asthma medications and phasing in the new environmentally-friendly HFA-type inhalers. This ... Read More

It's spring in most areas of the world except mine and that means allergy symptoms could be on the rise. Nasal allergy symptoms, that is. This is the time of ... Read More

Spring cleaning can be both a good thing and a bad thing for people with allergic asthma and nasal allergies. It's good to get rid of all the lingering dust ... Read More

I've written here before about the "benefits" of having a common, high profile disease like asthma. It means that there is tons of aggressive research and advances in treatment going ... Read More

The numbers of people who have asthma is on the rise. Many of these people have allergic asthma, but not all do. Experts have theorized that global warming & other ... Read More

Treatment for any disease should be aimed at achieving a specific outcome. Sometimes, as with cancer, treatment is aimed at a cure for the condition. Other times, it is simply ... Read More

As you know, we have many videos on this site that can help you learn about asthma, asthma medicines, allergies, and many other health-related issues. Now PBS is offering a ... Read More