BTS and SIGN guidelines revealed significant changes to current approaches including the tests used to diagnose asthma. It advised clinicians to use a stepwise series of tests including eosinophil ...

BTS and SIGN guidelines revealed significant changes to current approaches including the tests used to diagnose asthma. It advised GPs to use a stepwise series of tests including eosinophil count, ...

There’s no cure for COPD, and it’s the third leading cause of death worldwide, researchers said in background notes. The main method of diagnosing COPD has been a spirometry test, which measures lung ...

Spirometry is a test used to investigate the cause of symptoms such as breathlessness, cough and wheeze, and is essential for diagnosing and managing asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

She says it's important to bring a focus to the test with our high asthma and COPD rates. Harding says they hope to meet with the Health Minister next year.

GP and respiratory expert Dr Andrew Whittamore outlines the key updates in new joint NICE/BTS/SIGN asthma guidelines and advises on how best to implement the changes NICE has worked with BTS and SIGN ...

Residents of Timișoara, in western Romania, can undergo free spirometry tests in a special tram as ... respiratory conditions such as bronchial asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

Massachusetts families are still struggling to find alternatives about a year after GlaxoSmithKline canceled a widely prescribed children’s asthma medication, a problem given renewed urgency as ...