Why do we differentiate between virus-induced wheezing and asthma? Infants and toddlers with the former have recurrent episodes of wheezing and cough that can be prolonged and persistent, the trigger ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 5-year project is underway to find out why children who had RSV are more likely to develop asthma. Researchers ...

ETH47 is a first-in-class, broadly protective antiviral candidate developed using Ethris’ proprietary platform technologies for the treatment and prophylaxis of viral asthma exacerbations MUNICH, ...

Viral respiratory infection causes severe asthma attacks in almost all patients with asthma -- a reaction classically attributed to T cells of the adaptive immune system. Now, scientists have ...

Both the influenza and pneumococcal vaccines are appropriate for patients with asthma. A recent study has also shown that patients with asthma have a higher likelihood of invasive pneumococcal disease ...

Two recent studies investigated the use of corticosteroids for children with virus-induced asthma. Oral prednisolone was compared with placebo in a randomized trial involving 700 children aged 10-60 ...

In their first years of life, one in three children develop an early form of asthma. Among those, 80 percent have a genetic defect on chromosome 17. These children have frequent viral-induced wheeze ...

"We know that allergen-immunotherapy can also prevent exacerbations in asthma, and the mode of action is somewhat similar to anti-IgE, blocking the IgE-axis…Thus, if we could demonstrate that the ...