Frequent productive cough was experienced by patients with asthma and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), with symptom prevalence increasing with higher disease severity, according to the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A cough score was used to determine severity and featured questions from three validated assessments. Poorer ...

Bronchial hyperresponsiveness may indicate the presence of cough-variant asthma in nonsmokers who have chronic cough, new research shows. This research shows that sensitivity in the bronchial tubes—a ...

When monitoring cough, both subjective and objective measures are needed, but use of objective cough counting tools is lacking in clinical practice, according to a scoping review published in Lancet ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I have a dry cough that's been going on for about 13-14 years. I'm a healthy 62-year-old and read that it is called "cough variant asthma." I would like to know more about this but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fall allergy season is in full swing. From August to November, the most common outdoor allergy trigger is caused by ragweed pollen ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I have a friend who has had an extremely bad cough, especially when she gets a cold. (It sounds like she is coughing up a lung.) She is a breast cancer survivor and has had this cough ...

A well-known GP has delved into exactly how asthma is diagnosed and the symptoms people might face. His thoughts come as 7.2 million people in the UK have asthma, equating to around eight in every 100 ...

No one wants to be the person who can’t stop coughing. Not only is it uncomfortable on your throat, but it also draws angry stares from others in elevators, subway cars, and restaurants—especially ...

Because of climate change, heat waves, storms, heavy rainfalls, and floods are now occurring in areas that seldom experienced these phenomena before. "Extreme weather events are rare, but in terms of ...

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