1. FDA Investigating Safety of Asthma Drug Xolair - US News and World Report
Injected medication may be linked to higher risk of heart attack, stroke, agency says

2. Group Urges Public to Take Free Asthma Tests in May - US News and World Report
It's National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month

3. Health & Medicine: Asthma's New Expense - US News and World Report
More than 22 million Americans have the chronic airway inflammation known as asthma, with episodes of wheezing, coughing, and breathlessness. Each year, asthma causes 1.8 million emergency room visits, nearly 500,000 hospitalizations, and more than ...

4. Get up and get moving; not good at saying (or hearing) no; a second shield against cancer; got as...
Since their bodies don't do it automatically, type 1 diabetics have to carefully control the level of glucose in their blood by watching their diet and taking insulin. Doctors have debated whether to encourage exercise, since physical activity might...

5. Health: A word of warning to asthma sufferers - US News and World Report
Are long-acting beta-agonists a lifesaving drug for people with asthma, or do they harm more than help? That's a question that has bedeviled asthma patients and their doctors almost since the powerful inhaled drugs came into use more than 50 years a...

6. Allergy and Asthma - Symptoms, Causes, Treatment, Relief - Allergies, Food Allergy, Rhinitis, All...
Learn about allergies and asthma and its causes, prevention, symptoms, tests, treatment, and more. Find out what causes asthma in children, Eczema (atopic dermatitis), food causing allergies, hay fever, allergic reactions, and rhinitis.

7. Respiratory Disorders - Causes, Prevention, Symptoms and Treatment - Diseases and Conditions - US...
Learn about respiratory diseases and disorders such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd), lung cancer, and sinusitis. Find its causes, symptoms, prevention, test and treatment

8. Asthma - pediatric  (Trust Mark: Doctor-Reviewed)
Asthma is a disease of the respiratory system, which causes swelling and narrowing of the airways. Pediatric asthma refers to asthma in children.• Reviewer: Neil K. Kaneshiro, MD, MHA, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

9. Asthma  (Trust Mark: Doctor-Reviewed)
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the respiratory system that causes breathing difficulty. Asthma comes from the Greek word for panting. The disease is an over-responsiveness of the respiratory system to stimulating factors. It is charac...• Author: Maria Basile PhD