You're feeling pretty good about your fitness. You lift regularly. Hit the treadmill as much as you can manage. Stretch. Then, one day, you're working out, and you feel your chest constrict, your ...

Fitness nuts beware: Exercise can actually cause asthma. Well, sort of. Alongside asthma, a respiratory condition where the lungs’ airways tighten and breathing becomes labored, sits exercise-induced ...

For years, people with asthma were told to avoid exercise because it could induce or worsen asthma attacks. But a new study, published in the journal Annals of Medicine, turns that age-old advice on ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Asthma provoked by physical exertion is a common and often unrecognized occurrence in collegiate athletes, a study shows. Among 107 Ohio State varsity athletes from 22 ...

Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) is experienced by the majority of an estimated 300 million individuals who have asthma, a condition that affects all ages and is increasing globally.

Dr. David Hagaman answers the question: 'If A Child Coughs Only With Exercise?' — -- Question: My child only coughs with exercise. Should he/she be on regular asthma medicine? Answer: Coughing is ...

Physical inactivity has long been common among children with asthma due to fears of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB). However, new evidence-based recommendations show that with proper ...

Asthma is one of the most common chronic respiratory diseases among children, affecting nearly 475 million globally. For decades, exercise was discouraged due to the risk of triggering wheezing and ...

Mar. 23 -- WEDNESDAY, April 25 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the Merck asthma and allergy drug Singulair (montelukast sodium) for people aged 15 and older who ...