Managing Comorbid Chronic Lung Disease With Allergies

Michael A. Bernstein, MD, can’t contain his curiosity when he hears the common claim: This is the worst allergy season ever. “I feel like the current season is always said to be ‘the worst’ for allergies, but it’s difficult to know how bad any season is until it’s actually over,” said Bernstein, a pulmonologist at … Read more

Early-Onset Asthma May Slow Memory Development

Children with asthma scored significantly lower than those without asthma on measures of episodic memory, based on longitudinal data from nearly 500 individuals. Animal models have shown associations between asthma and memory problems, but data for children are lacking, wrote Nicholas J. Christopher-Hayes, MA, of the University of California, Davis, and colleagues. “Asthma is very … Read more