A fatal asthma attack looks like a crisis confined to the chest: airways narrow, their lining swells, and mucus crowds out ...

(Ian Hooton/SPL/Getty Images) A fatal asthma attack appears to be a disaster contained entirely within the chest. The airways ...

People living with a severe form of asthma show subtle differences in the structure of their brains compared with people ...

Research presented at the recent European Respiratory Society Congress in Barcelona, Spain, suggests inflammation driving a severe form of asthma may extend beyond the lungs to affect the brain's ...

Asthma encompasses a spectrum of inflammatory endotypes, of which neutrophilic asthma represents a distinct phenotype characterised by elevated neutrophil counts in airway samples, heightened ...

Asthma is a chronic respiratory disorder marked by episodic airway obstruction, inflammation and remodelling. Central to its pathophysiology is an interplay between airway epithelial cells, resident ...