Deep-sea diving gas helps asthma
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A breathing mixture commonly used by deep-sea divers shows promise for treating asthma attacks.
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NEW YORK  - Attending a special asthma camp can help children improve their asthma management skills, a new study shows. However, more than one third of the children still had poorly controlled asthma, despite being under a doctor's care.
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Researchers said home exposure to solvents, paints, cleaning products and room fresheners may increase the risk of childhood asthma.
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Drinking apple juice from  concentrate daily may help ward off asthma symptoms in  children, a study from the UK hints.
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NEW YORK  - Infant swimming lessons in an indoor pool may have the unintended effect of raising some children's risk of asthma later on, new research findings suggest.
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Helium can be mighty dangerous on its own, but when combined with oxygen it seems to help lung patients breathe more easily. In Bodyhack.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Children with asthma who are exposed to traffic pollution are at increased risk for respiratory problems and reduced lung volumes, says a study that looked at children in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez, a crossing point into the United States.
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NEW YORK  - Premature newborns have a  heightened risk of sleep apnea -- brief periods when they stop  breathing -- but pumping a pleasant odor into their incubators  seems to reduce the frequency of such spells, a study from  France suggests.
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A protein traditionally thought of as troublesome actually helps to minimise the effects of asthma, scientists say.
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NEW YORK  - Women who get enough vitamin E   during pregnancy may help lower their child's future risk of   asthma, a study suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Inhaling a compound that is  normally produced in the lungs but is lacking in people with  cystic fibrosis seems to be helpful for such patients, results  of a pilot study indicate.
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A new underwater glider that can dive deeper and stay offshore longer may provide key data in predicting climate change. By Emmet Cole.
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A University of Michigan study says changes in the bacteria and fungi (microflora) in the gastrointestinal tract may intensify immune system response to common allergens inhaled into the lungs.
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Scientists have discovered that even whales can get the bends. The findings challenge long-held beliefs that marine mammals do not get decompression sickness, and provide potential evidence that underwater
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Infant swimming lessons in an  indoor pool may have the unintended effect of raising some  children&#39;s risk of asthma later on, new research findings  suggest.
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Researchers say they may have found out why the obese are more likely to develop asthma.
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Exposure at a young age to certain chemicals in household cleaning products may increase the risk of developing asthma, according to an Australian study.