As families prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, and other winter holidays, millions will also have to ...

This analysis underscores the importance of better understanding the role of early-life exposure to ambient ozone in addressing risk factors for pediatric asthma in the US. HealthDay News — Early-life ...

Day care, children Early child care attendance increased the risk for wheeze in children ≤2 years of age but decreased the risk for asthma in children 3 to 5 years of age. Early child care attendance ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A model with knowledge of wheeze when resting and simple patient traits predicted odds for small airways ...

Doctors advise patients and families to stay alert to warning signs that distinguish lung cancer from asthma. Persistent ...

Ozone exposure in the first years of life correlated with a higher likelihood of asthma and wheeze at age 4 to 6. Ozone represents the criteria air pollutant most commonly exceeded among U.S. children ...

March 19, 2012 — Children who are exposed to tobacco smoke prenatally or in their home after birth are at least 20% more likely to have wheezing episodes or develop asthma. The magnitude of the risks ...

About 90 percent of children with two copies of a common genetic variation and who wheezed when they caught a cold early in life later developed asthma by age 6, according to a study published in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Children of mothers who had high-dose prenatal vitamin D and who had sufficient vitamin D at age 12 months had ...

To earn CME related to this news article, click here. April 23, 2009 — Relatively low dietary intakes of vitamins A and C are associated with statistically significant increased odds of asthma and ...

Cold season is hanging on, and as parents of children with asthma know, winter colds are often accompanied by wheezing. I’ve spent a lot of time this winter listening to wheezy chests, lots of ...

The diagnosis of asthma in a young child may well be more challenging to pediatricians than previously appreciated, according to a review of research and clinical experience literature by Howard Eigen ...