Asthma is one of the most prevalent chronic inflammatory respiratory diseases across the globe, with a significant increase in mortality and morbidity in recent years, affecting all age groups ...

ATLANTA - Prices are rising sharply on many asthma inhalers just in time for spring allergy season and some insurance companies are not covering the higher costs, and many patients cannot afford the ...

Tens of millions of Americans with lung disease use metered-dose inhalers each day, and new studies by Rice University electrical engineers and pulmonologists at Baylor College of Medicine have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Are Americans paying nearly $500 for an inhaler that would cost just $7 overseas? U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., says there is a ...

Dr. Miguel Divo, a lung specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, sits in an exam room, across from one of his patients with asthma. Joel Rubinstein, a retired psychiatrist, is about to get a ...

As people with asthma know all too well, the cost of breathing more easily can be pretty steep—one “rescue” inhaler can cost $70 or more. Hopefully, those prices will finally drop with the ...

What to do when a patient’s asthma control deteriorates after switching to a more environmentally friendly, or ‘greener’, ...

LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- An ongoing shortage of a medicine commonly used to treat people with breathing problems is expected to get worse after a major supplier to US hospitals shut down last week, CNN ...