Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It may be getting harder to live with asthma in California's Central Valley. A recent report released by the Asthma and Allergy ...

Asthma rates are on the rise in California, but the condition disproportionately affects low-income children and adults, according to a study [PDF] from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.more ...

Persistent cough and chest tightness may indicate asthma over seasonal allergies Allergy diagnosis often starts with blood testing and may require specialist input Children with eczema may have higher ...

Esther Bejarano’s son was 11 months old when asthma landed him inhh the hospital. She didn’t know what had triggered his symptoms — neither she nor her husband had asthma — but she suspected it was ...

Want more? Subscribe to our newsletter to get our investigations delivered straight to your inbox. MODESTO, Calif. – The students filing into Bret Harte Elementary School every morning barely notice ...

SAN FRANCISCO — African American and Latino children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy are more likely to suffer from acute asthma symptoms in their teens than asthma sufferers whose mothers did ...

I grew up in a small, rural town in Ohio where nearly 3,000 people lived. There was never a day when I couldn’t run outside and enjoy the beautiful landscape of my town. Today, I work as a nurse in ...

Roughly 25 million people in the U.S. have active asthma. For most, it can be controlled with the right medications and by avoiding environmental triggers. And yet nearly half of all adults and 40 ...

SAN JOSE — In an exam room at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, 8-year-old Kaamil Chaudhry blows hard into an instrument that checks his lung capacity. Nurse practitioner Maria Villanueva frowns. She ...