Diagnosing precisely what type of asthma a child has and fine-tuning the treatment for it involves an invasive procedure under general anesthesia. For children with mild asthma, it's just not worth ...

Not sure what's causing your child's asthma? A new quick-and-easy nasal swab test for kids can diagnose the specific immune system drivers behind their asthma, potentially opening the door to better ...

Worldwide, asthma is the most common chronic respiratory illness that affects children, particularly Puerto Rican and Black youths, who experience higher rates of asthma and asthma-related deaths ...

Current asthma tests can only detect one type of the lung disease, but an experimental nasal swab has demonstrated the ability to differentiate between various asthma types. The disease, which affects ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a nasal swab test for children and youth that helps clinicians diagnose specific asthma subtypes, or endotypes, using nasal epithelial gene ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a nasal swab test for kids that diagnoses specific asthma subtype, or endotype. This non-invasive approach could help clinicians prescribe ...

Juan Celedón, M.D., Dr.P.H., professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh and chief of pulmonary medicine at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Researchers at the University of ...

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