Editor’s Note: Pamela Appea is a New York City-based journalist covering health, science and intersectionality. The views expressed here are her own. Read more opinion at CNN Asthma cut short the life of my mother and has sickened each of my two children at various points in their lives. During one relatively brief episode of my life […]
Editor’s Note: Pamela Appea is a New York City-based journalist covering health, science and intersectionality. The views expressed here are her own. Read more opinion at CNN Asthma cut short the life of my mother and has sickened each of my two children at various points in their lives. During one relatively brief episode of my life […]
A new treatment to prevent some of the damage asthma causes could be available to patients soon, UK scientists have suggested. According to researchers at King’s College London, during an asthma attack, the cells lining the airways are squeezed and destroyed. A new drug could prevent this, instead of managing the consequences, which is what […]
Scientists have discovered a new cause for asthma that offers hope for treatment that could prevent the life-threatening disease. The majority of current asthma treatments come from the idea that it is an inflammatory disease. The life-threatening feature of the condition is the attack, or the constriction of airways, which makes it difficult to breathe. […]
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will host a White House event with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Wednesday to highlight their efforts to cut the cost of inhalers for asthma suffers. Sanders and other lawmakers in January criticized four manufacturers of inhalers sold in the U.S. — AstraZeneca, Boehringer, Teva Pharmaceuticals […]