Asthma Healing

The German drug maker Altana said an asthma and bronchitis medicine had performed well in tests and would move into the final stage of testing, setting off a sharp rally in the company's stock price.

A report on the death of a healthy volunteer in an asthma study at Johns Hopkins University found that the university's research review board was inadequate to handle its thousands of studies and that some researchers had adversarial relationships with federal regulators.

Inhaled steroids used to treat asthma have led to bone loss at the hip in premenopausal women, researchers have found.

MOLD can cause health problems that range from itching eyes, sneezing and coughing to serious allergic reactions, asthma attacks and even permanent lung damage. And what many people do not know is that mold could be growing in their homes right now.

Some art provokes strong reactions across the centuries -- especially if it was made with eggs.

Combining a ''supercleaning'' technique developed for lead abatement with periodic pest control can sharply reduce the cockroach allergens that have been linked to high rates of asthma in urban areas, according to a new study.

A study being released today has found that about half of a group of people with chronic asthma also suffered from low-level lung infections, and that antibiotic treatment improved their breathing.

A $100 million project to develop a new kind of map of the human genome was announced today by an international consortium. Its goal is to hasten discovery of the variant genes thought to underlie common human diseases like diabetes, asthma and cancer.

GlaxoSmithKline said yesterday that Serevent, one of its popular asthma drugs, might pose a risk of death and serious asthma-related illness in some patients.

The truth about cats and dogs is that dogs seem to be worse, at least for people with asthma.

Two studies have found that mite-proof bed coverings, at least by themselves, fail to relieve asthma and allergies, a perplexing discovery that challenges the frequent advice of doctors.

People with asthma that gets worse at night might do well to avoid using melatonin as a sleep aid, according to a study issued yesterday.

Despite a government recommendation that people with asthma receive annual flu vaccinations, only about a third do so, a new study reports.

Perhaps the most frightening symptom one can experience is being unable to inhale enough air to perform even the simplest activities, like walking from the bedroom to the bathroom or even talking. But that is the ultimate fate of millions of Americans with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

People with asthma who are taught biofeedback techniques to regulate their heart rate may be able to reduce their reliance on inhaled steroids, a new study reports.

AstraZeneca has won approval from the Food and Drug Administration for its asthma drug Symbicort, but the company said Saturday that it would not sell it in the United States until mid-2007.

By ANTHONY DePALMA
Published: August 28, 2007

Rescue and recovery workers at ground zero have developed asthma at a rate that is 12 times what would be expected for adults, according to findings released yesterday by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

By ERIC NAGOURNEY
Published: November 13, 2007

Inhalers are an effective treatment for asthma and other respiratory diseases, but they can have adverse side effects. The conclusions of studies on these effects apparently depend in part on who pays for the study.

Q. Are common cockroaches carriers of disease?

Julien Jourdes for The New York Times

Angie Cano, a 5-year-old with asthma, is evaluated at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. Asthma afflicts a disproportionate number of minority children in urban areas.