LONDON (BBC): The amount of time asthma patients spend soaking up the sun may have an impact on the illness, researchers have suggested. A team at King’s College London said low levels of vitamin D, which is made by the body in sunlight, was linked to a worsening of symptoms. Its latest ...

NEW YORK (Reuters): Kids and teens, who are born abroad and immigrate to the United States, are about half as likely to have asthma and allergies as those who are born in the US, according to a new study. Researchers surveyed the parents of 80,000 children in one of six languages and found that ...

EATING junk food could increase the severity of asthma and eczema in youngsters, research suggests.Consuming more than three portions of fast food a week has been linked with severe asthma in children and teenagers. The findings, from the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood, ...

Preschool children who regularly snore are more likely to have asthma and nocturnal cough than those who do not snore, according to the results of a study published in the August issue of Chest. Dr. Jennifer K. Peat, of the University of Sydney, Australia, and colleagues measured the prevalence of ...