Despite a wealth of available treatments to control the symptoms of chronic asthma, the lung disease has no cure. The discovery of an unexpected cause of asthma could change that. A glitch in the ...

New research reveals how the relationship between nerves and immune cells in the lungs can contribute to the development of allergic asthma. Allergic asthma -- which is characterized by wheezing and ...

A Mendelian randomization analysis supported an increasing causal relationship between asthma and lung cancer risk, particularly in smokers and lung squamous cell carcinoma. Individuals with asthma ...

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As the English poet John Donne famously wrote in 1624, “No organ is an island.” Or at least, that’s what he would have written if he had been a psychoneuroimmunologist instead of a poet. Today, ...

Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California have discovered that a protein called Piezo1 prevents type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) in the lung from becoming ...

Although asthma has long been recognized as a physical health issue, it’s important to realize that asthma not only affects the lungs but also emotional wellness and behavioral health. The tie between ...

Imagine you suffer from severe asthma, and you've tried every treatment available, but nothing has worked. You still can't breathe. Then a new therapy comes along that attacks the source of the asthma ...

(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved British drugmaker GSK's asthma drug to treat some patients with a chronic lung disease commonly known as "smoker's lung", the company said ...