asthma

If a child with asthma also has allergies, it’s a double whammy. Now, there’s personalized care for patients with these complex cases.

If a child with asthma also has allergies, it’s a double whammy. Now, there’s personalized care for patients with these complex cases.

Tony Hale of “Veep” and “Arrested Development” fame joins LX News to discuss his new partnership to help sufferers of asthma.

An Indianapolis man is sharing the heartbreaking story of how his family was directly impacted by the coronavirus to educate others about just how serious the current public health crisis is.

North Texas allergy spring season gets an intense start while the CDC warns allergy and asthma patients to monitor symptoms.

If you suffer from allergies, you know North Texas’ allergy season is intense, but doctors say there’s a specific group of allergy sufferers who could be paying close attention to their symptoms in a novel coronavirus world.

The new coronavirus is causing anxiety for many people with pre-existing medical problems, including those with asthma.

A smoke-filled stench fills a refugee camp just a short walk from the U.S.-Mexico border, rising from ever-burning fires and piles of human waste. Parents and children live in a sea of tents and tarps, some patched together with garbage bags. Others sleep outside in temperatures that recently dropped to freezing. Justina, an asylum seeker who fled political persecution in...

The flu forecast is cloudy and it’s too soon to know if the U.S. is in for a third miserable season in a row, but health officials said Thursday not to delay vaccination.

The flu forecast is cloudy and it’s too soon to know if the U.S. is in for a third miserable season in a row, but health officials said Thursday not to delay vaccination. While the vaccine didn’t offer much protection the past two years, specialists have fine-tuned the recipe in hopes it will better counter a nasty strain this time...

Diabetics skipping regular checkups. Young asthmatics not getting preventive care. A surge in expensive emergency room visits. Doctors and public health experts warn of poor health and rising costs they say will come from sweeping Trump administration changes that would deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid, as well as food stamps and other forms of public assistance....

As many as 50 people in at least six states have come down with breathing illnesses that may be linked to e-cigarettes or other vaping products. No deaths have been reported, but at least a few have come close. Some patients have likened onset of the illness to a heart attack, and others to the flu. Symptoms have included shortness...

Louisiana is becoming the first Deep South state to dispense medical marijuana on Tuesday, four years after state lawmakers agreed to give patients access to therapeutic cannabis. Nine pharmacies are licensed to dispense medical marijuana across Louisiana and most are expected to open this week. Louisiana joins more than 30 other states that allow medical marijuana in some form. And...

Drawing from their personal experiences, senators on Tuesday chastised drug company executives over the high cost of prescription drugs, as the company officials cautioned that heavy-handed congressional action could jeopardize medical breakthroughs going forward. Tuesday’s Senate Finance Committee hearing marked the first time lawmakers have called the industry’s top executives to account for rising prices, which are a drain on...

They survived war abroad, but now some veterans believe they’re slowly dying from exposure to military burn pits, which are flaming piles of garbage that emit known toxins. Investigative reporter Bigad Shaban reports in this story that originally aired on February 25, 2019.

The youngest children in kindergarten are more likely to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in early grades, a study shows, an intriguing finding for parents on the fence about when to start their child in school.

There have been few known preventable factors which can potentially reduce childhood asthma, until now. Researchers says preventing childhood obesity may also prevent asthma in children.

A new Duke University study suggests 10 percent of childhood asthma cases could be prevented by reducing obesity.

Smoke masks. Eye drops. No outdoor exercise. This is how Californians are trying to cope with wildfires choking the state, but experts say an increase in serious health problems may be almost inevitable for vulnerable residents as the disasters become more commonplace.

Do you feel congested or struggle with a scratchy, hoarse throat? Your troubles might not be in your lungs. Medical experts are starting to look to the stomach as the culprit.