Your airways become swollen during an acute exacerbation of asthma. Your muscles contract and your bronchial tubes narrow. Breathing can become more difficult. When asthma symptoms flare up and ...

Mast cells, which are abundant in the airways of asthmatic individuals, act as first responders to viral infections by ...

A remote monitoring program predicted when patients with asthma would experience distress, according to a poster presented at ...

Asthma is a condition marked by recurrent attacks of difficult breathing and wheezing due to spasmodic constriction of the bronchi tubes.

Patients with asthma have impaired diaphragm thickening fraction compared with healthy individuals without asthma.

Medically reviewed by Daniel More, MD Managing your allergic asthma requires a comprehensive approach. There are no proven ...

While these may happen any time of day, asthma exacerbations occur mostly at night and in the early morning. Airway inflammation (swelling) is a key effect of asthma on the lungs. Both short-term ...

New therapeutic "cocktails" could offer long-lasting relief for treatment-resistant asthma and other inflammatory diseases of ...

A new asthma treatment, depemokimab, has shown promise in reducing exacerbations while maintaining a strong safety profile, according to findings presented at the 2025 American Academy of Allergy ...

A new asthma treatment, depemokimab, has shown promise in reducing exacerbations while maintaining a strong safety profile, according to findings presented at the 2025 American Academy of Allergy, ...