AAFA issues statement on Reconciliation Act AAFA Statement on Impact of Health Care Cuts In the face of cuts to Medicaid, ...

As the number of people with allergies grows worldwide, scientists are trying to work out precisely how and why these ...

Evidence suggests that early exposure to family members, food, germs, dust, dirt, pollen, and pets shapes our immune response ...

Background: There is conflicting information about the relationship between asthma and socioeconomic status, with different studies reporting no, positive, or inverse associations. Most of these ...

Objectives Care gaps in asthma may be highly prevalent but are poorly characterised. We sought to prospectively measure adherence to key evidence-based adult asthma practices in primary care, and ...

There is a need to re-evaluate the concept of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as separate conditions, and to consider situations when they may coexist, or when one condition ...

Asthma is a common respiratory disease in modern society. However, people are rarely aware of the symptoms of asthma because the early stage of asthma is similar to that of the common cold (e.g., ...

All comparisons between individuals with controlled and uncontrolled asthma as assessed by the GINA questionnaire and the C-ACT/ACT are shown in Table 2. When we compared the GINA controlled asthma ...

For an ACT score of 20, the Youden index reached the maximum (0.658); accordingly, we used an ACT score of 20 as the optimal cutpoint for screening patients with controlled asthma.

Two questionnaires were used in this study, namely, the ACT and Asthma Control Questionnaire (ACQ). The ACT consisted of five items; for each item, five options were provided pertaining to asthma ...

Childhood asthma is not a disqualifying factor for becoming an L.A County firefighter and shouldn’t be for Pine Grove either, Hahn wrote in her motion.

TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new digital tool can flag kids who are at risk for developing childhood asthma, researchers report. The tool scans electronic health data records and ...