Welcome to Where It Hurts, a weeklong series that tells the stories of people in the United States who have gone without health insurance when they needed it most. You can read the first piece in the ...

WHEN little Maya’s lips “turned blue”, her terrified mum knew something was seriously wrong. What had started as sniffles and ...

Breathing can feel normal for weeks, then suddenly turn into a race for air. That uncertainty is one of the hardest parts of living with asthma. Even when symptoms seem quiet, an attack can still ...

Sitting on his couch in Horizon City, Frank Mendez felt his back ache as he watched the Super Bowl with his family last year. He figured the soreness came from the long drive he just made from San ...

As the city heads into peak cold and flu season, health officials are warning residents to take extra precautions — especially those with respiratory conditions such as asthma. The Bronx has the ...

Researchers at Mass General Brigham and Karolinska Institutet have identified a new method to predict asthma exacerbations with a high degree of accuracy. The study is published in Nature ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - If you suffer from asthma, here’s some good news. Researchers created a blood test that can identify who’s at risk for asthma attacks up to five years ahead of time. A study in ...

CHILDREN’S HEALTH IRELAND (CHI) have issued a “sincere apology” for shortcomings in the care of a Dublin teenager with severe and poorly controlled asthma who died following a severe attack while ...