The study found that cough severity and cough-related quality of life were not related to the severity of bronchial hyperresponsiveness in nonsmoking adults with cough-variant asthma. Due to its high ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A cough score was used to determine severity and featured questions from three validated assessments. Poorer ...

(StatePoint) Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is an extremely contagious bacterial infection that can lead to severe, sometimes life-threatening health problems, such as exacerbation of ...

Do you find yourself coughing like crazy after you try a new perfume? Are you wheezing during workouts? Feeling short of breath when you walk the dog? You may be shocked to find out you have ...

Are you an adult suffering from a long-standing cough that does not produce phlegm and stops as soon as you fall asleep? Has your cough failed to improve despite being treated with different ...

Asthma that begins during childhood is called child-onset asthma. This type of asthma happens because a child becomes sensitized to common allergens in the environment - most likely due to genetic ...

Patients tend to prioritize other conditions, and physicians may be slow to recognize it In early June, Donna Bilgore Robins stood on a patio in Beaver Creek, Colo., under a crystal-clear blue sky and ...

Dr. William John Cochran was diagnosed with whooping cough in April 2009. At right, Lucy Ceresi, a nurse at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, demonstrates on Therese Pramick, left, a pertussis ...

Part of the reason whooping cough may not be in your everyday lexicon is because cases have dropped precipitously since a vaccine was introduced in the 1940s and included in the childhood vaccination ...

For adults, obesity may increase the risk of catching whooping cough, a new study from Australia suggests. In the study, obese adults were 50 percent more likely to become infected with whooping cough ...