Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Airways with mucus plugs have thicker epithelium, basement membranes and smooth muscle than unplugged airways.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NASHVILLE, Tenn. — There are no simple solutions in asthma treatment, as evidenced by a debate that covered ...

An international study led by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers identifies a lung cell specific means of modulating and ...

A recent case report described 3 pediatric patients with severe asthma whose disease was not managed according to care guidelines and who did not respond to the biologic by the time they began therapy ...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Asthma is a common chronic respiratory condition characterized clinically by an excessive tendency toward reversible airway narrowing. Scientists believe that the airway ...

An inflammatory molecule called LIGHT, appears to be the cause of life-threatening airway damage in patients with severe asthma. According to the new research from scientists at La Jolla Institute for ...

Patients with bronchial asthma suffer from attacks of shortness of breath caused by constricted airways. “Anti-inflammatory medications are usually given to treat this, although it isn’t quite clear ...

Scientists have discovered that an inflammatory cytokine known as LIGHT is a major factor in the deadly airway damage that can affect people with severe asthma. This research has suggested that such ...

Despite a wealth of available treatments to control the symptoms of chronic asthma, the lung disease has no cure. The discovery of an unexpected cause of asthma could change that. A glitch in the ...

'This is a very striking and significant result that essentially separates LIGHT from any of the other inflammatory cytokines that have been implicated in the process in severe asthmatics.' An ...