Pulmonary function tests are important for diagnosing and managing respiratory conditions that affect your lungs and/or airways, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

You might need to have your vital capacity measured again in a few months, especially if you have started on a new medication or received an intervention to help improve your pulmonary function.

A noninvasive approach could help clinicians prescribe medications more precisely for patients according to endotype.

A chest X-ray cannot diagnose asthma but can provide valuable information during a severe attack or when someone is hospitalized with asthma complications. A chest X-ray can also differentiate asthma ...

Till now, bronchoscopy involving application of general anesthesia and collecting lung tissue samples was used by physicians ...

Researchers have developed a simple nasal swab test to diagnose asthma subtypes in children, paving the way for better therapies for under-studied asthma types.

Not sure what’s causing your child’s asthma?A new quick-and-easy nasal swab test for kids can diagnose the specific i ...

Researchers have unveiled a groundbreaking nasal swab test for diagnosing specific asthma endotypes in children, particularly ...

A new, non-invasive nasal swab test for kids that diagnoses specific asthma subtype, or endotype, could help clinicians ...

A novel diagnostic test using just a nasal swab could transform how doctors diagnose and treat childhood asthma. Researchers ...