Having a parent with an autoimmune disease may be associated with an increased risk for allergic diseases, a meta-analysis shows.

The MostGraph impulse oscillation system may effectively assess airway resistance and resonant frequency in asthma and cough ...

Every day, millions of people input prompts (whether questions or instructions) into AI tools such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, DALL-E, or Meta AI. Recently, media coverage highlighted what seemed ...

ayDepartment of Pulmonology, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Hacettepe University, School of Medicine, Ankara, Türkiye azClinical Lung and Allergy Research, Department of Medicine ...

Bentonville, Ark.—A decade ago, the largest private employer in the U.S., Walmart, increased its starting wage to $9 an hour. Raising the salaries of nearly half of its more than a million U.S. hourly ...

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. About 34 million Americans have a chronic ...

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Nearly 1 million people with COVID-19 were studied against vaccinated and uninfected controls. Researchers found a 66% higher risk of asthma and 74% higher risk of chronic sinusitis after COVID-19.

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

Switching from a metered-dose to a dry-powder inhaler after a formulary change increased emergency department visits and hospitalizations in people with COPD or asthma. The absolute changes in risk ...

In 2020, Dr. Deborah Gentile helped lead a study that showed children living near major sources of industrial pollution in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County were diagnosed with asthma at triple the ...