People with asthma have telltale molecules circulating in their blood, say researchers at Penn State College of Medicine. The discovery could lead to the first diagnostic blood test for asthma, as ...

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TidalSense has received a £795,000 grant from the UK's Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) Healthcare programme to support the continued development of its N-Tidal device for diagnosing asthma ...

Researchers in Sweden conducted a real-world clinical study involving 123 participants (mean age, 33 years; 67% females) with asthma-like symptoms to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of dynamic ...

A lung function test used to help diagnose asthma works better in the morning, becoming less reliable throughout the day, researchers have found. Using real world data from 1,600 patients, available ...

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Diagnosing precisely what type of asthma a child has and fine-tuning the treatment for it involves an invasive procedure under general anesthesia. For children with mild asthma, it's just not worth ...

asthma, lungs Authors review changes in the diagnosis, workup, and treatment of asthma in the 2022 GINA report. Some patients with asthma who lack evidence of type 2 inflammation are considered to ...

In this video, Shikha Saxena, MD, attending physician of the division of pulmonary and sleep medicine at the Children's ...