—Is it asthma? Is it chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? In a genome-wide association study, researchers in the U.K. have determined signals that are associated with both diseases. Here are the ...

A small proportion of patients have symptoms of both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. A new report suggests there might be an intermediate phenotype. A new report has identified 8 ...

Respiratory diseases such as Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) are on the rise partly because of ...

A diagnostic algorithm was evaluated for its ability to gauge the presence of asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), in a new analysis. An asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

Background: For several years, asthma and COPD have been regarded as distinct entities, with distinct clinical courses. However, despite distinctive physiologic features at the time of diagnosis, and ...

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Individuals with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were more vulnerable than healthy controls to epithelial cell changes caused by microplastics exposure, based on data from a ...

A new study suggests that restricting sugar intake during pregnancy and the first two years of a child’s life is associated ...

A nebulizer is a machine that turns liquid medication into an inhalable mist and is used for people with respiratory ...

Asthma inhalers are critical for delivering small amounts of medication to people's lungs to improve breathing and help ...