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 ...

Every year, the first Tuesday of May is observed as World Asthma Day. This global initiative aims to raise awareness about better prevention, diagnosis, and management of Asthma. On this occasion, we ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More patients with vs. without asthma reported chronic cough. The likelihood for chronic cough increased among ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I have a friend who has had an extremely bad cough, especially when she gets a cold. (It sounds like she is coughing up a lung.) She is a breast cancer survivor and has had this cough ...

A morning cough may occur due to an illness or another health condition, such as allergies or asthma. But if the cough lingers, you may need medical treatment. Coughing is your body’s way of clearing ...

WHEN little Maya’s lips “turned blue”, her terrified mum knew something was seriously wrong. What had started as sniffles and ...

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 ...

Coughing is a reflex that typically serves as a defense mechanism to clear the airways of irritants or secretions. (Fun fact: Coughs can propel air and particles out of the lungs and throat at speeds ...