Background: Recent evidence suggests that maternal supplementation of folic acid during pregnancy may play a role in the development of wheezing and asthma among offspring, potentially through ...

Nearly a quarter of children with recurrent wheezing have 'silent' lung infections that would be better treated with antiviral medications than commonly prescribed steroids that can carry lifelong ...

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In a recent research letter published in the journal JAMA Network Open, scientists in Italy compared the rates of respiratory medication usage and wheezing due to bronchiolitis among children born ...

IT’S that time of year where everyone seems to have caught some sort of bug – so it’s no surprise if your tot has got a cough ...

BRITS are being urged to look out for symptoms of RSV after an increase in cases of the highly contagious disease. The virus ...

Many children with recurrent wheezing issues would be better treated with antiviral medications instead of steroids, researchers at the University of Virginia found. Higher doses of corticosteroids ...

“It is a one-time injection of RSV antibodies. The antibodies last for about six months, so they protect babies through that ...

“We hope this discovery will stimulate further work in the treatment of recurrent wheeze and viral infections in children,” said researcher W. Gerald Teague, MD, a pediatric pulmonologist at UVA ...