A new study reports intriguing findings linking childhood abuse to asthma rates in urban Puerto Rican children. Neighborhood violence, in contrast, was not associated with an elevated asthma rate, suggesting a specificity of mechanism.

Every day, thousands of individuals across Montana struggle to breathe due to a common chronic disease: asthma.

A new Utah Department of Health report outlines the impact of asthma on children as they head back to school this fall.

Researchers appear to have solved at least a piece of a puzzle that has mystified physicians for years: why so many patients with asthma also suffer from GERD, or gastroesophageal reflux disease.

People who are obese with asthma may carry a specific trait or phenotype that causes them to have poorer asthma control than people who are not obese with asthma.

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services would like families to use a little of that time updating their children's asthma action plans.

California's children missed 1.9 million days of school and the state's adult workers missed 2 million days of work due to asthma.

Mothers eating nut products regularly during pregnancy increase the risk for their children to develop asthma.