Frequent productive cough was experienced by patients with asthma and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), with symptom prevalence increasing with higher disease severity, according to the ...

Wheezing, coughing and breathlessness may not always be asthma. Cardiologist explains how heart failure can cause similar symptoms, known as cardiac asthma.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients with asthma, those with chronic cough vs. without chronic cough had worse respiratory symptoms, ...

Bronchial hyperresponsiveness may indicate the presence of cough-variant asthma in nonsmokers who have chronic cough, new research shows. This research shows that sensitivity in the bronchial tubes—a ...

It really can take a village of healthcare professionals to determine the causes and possible cures or treatments of chronic ...

Based on emerging new evidence and expert consensus, an international panel selected by the American College of Chest Physicians released recommendations for the noninvasive measurement of airway ...

I have contemplated this issue on a personal level this year. My son recently completed his first T-ball season which began in a cooler-than-usual spring. He is an athletic 6-year-old with seasonal ...

Because of climate change, heat waves, storms, heavy rainfalls, and floods are now occurring in areas that seldom experienced these phenomena before. "Extreme weather events are rare, but in terms of ...

About 4% to 10% of the adult population experiences chronic cough — a cough lasting eight weeks or more, or at least four weeks for children. A chronic cough doesn't call for immediate medical ...

Asthma that begins during childhood is called child-onset asthma. This type of asthma happens because a child becomes sensitized to common allergens in the environment - most likely due to genetic ...