People with asthma have telltale molecules circulating in their blood, say researchers at Penn State College of Medicine. The discovery could lead to the first diagnostic blood test for asthma, as ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

FeNO testing is increasingly recognized as a key first step in asthma assessment under the updated UK guidelines.

TidalSense has received a £795,000 grant from the UK's Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) Healthcare programme to support the continued development of its N-Tidal device for diagnosing asthma ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a nasal swab test for children and youth that helps clinicians diagnose specific asthma subtypes, or endotypes, using nasal epithelial gene ...

asthma, lungs Authors review changes in the diagnosis, workup, and treatment of asthma in the 2022 GINA report. Some patients with asthma who lack evidence of type 2 inflammation are considered to ...

Diagnosing precisely what type of asthma a child has and fine-tuning the treatment for it involves an invasive procedure under general anesthesia. For children with mild asthma, it's just not worth ...

A lung function test used to help diagnose asthma works better in the morning, becoming less reliable throughout the day, Cambridge researchers have found. Using real world data from 1,600 patients, ...