Kerry Pearl remembers the pharmacist holding up the medicine her 4-year-old son needed to help him breathe. “He was literally holding it, looking at me like: ‘I can’t give you this,’ ” she recalls.

For World Asthma Day, GINA is spotlighting the need for greater access to inhaled corticosteroids for everyone, from adults ...

When an asthma attack occurs, many sufferers use a device — a “spacer” — to increase the chances that rescue medicine travels from an inhaler all the way down to the airways where it is needed. A new ...

For many children, asthma can be a constant specter, with attacks at the most inconvenient and terrifying times. New research has now found that one inhaler containing two drugs can cut the risk of ...

Children who use a lot of blue reliever inhalers are several times more likely to have severe asthma attacks A new study is offering children with asthma an enhanced check-up to see whether it can ...

When it comes to treating conditions like asthma, pills or syrups are not better than inhalers. This is because these ...

Flovent, one of the most commonly prescribed childhood asthma inhalers, is no longer being manufactured in the United States. This preventative medication is usually taken every day to help keep an ...

An Islip doctor who helped author a state law that led to greater availability of nebulizers to treat asthma in schools said he is concerned that new federal guidelines, favoring specially adapted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children who use a lot of blue reliever inhalers are several times more likely to have severe asthma attacks [BBC] A new study is ...