Asthma is one of the major growth areas in therapeutics and many new drugs are currently in development. These drugs include improvements of existing classes of drugs, notably once-daily inhaled ...

Objective: To review the basis for the estimated comparative daily dosages of inhaled corticosteroids for children and adults that are presented in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's ...

Flovent, one of the most commonly prescribed asthma medications, is no longer being manufactured. Parents share their ...

Inhaled steroids reduce and prevent inflammation ... Strenuous exercise, the common cold and the flu, certain drugs—such as aspirin and ibuprofen—and stress can also cause asthma attacks.

Steroids are among the medications commonly prescribed to treat COPD. They help reduce the inflammation in your lungs caused by flare-ups. Steroids come in oral and inhaled forms. There are also ...

Self-identified black and non-Hispanic white asthmatic patients and nonasthmatic control subjects 5 to 65 years of age were recruited from the Denver metropolitan area and from the National Jewish ...