I am so discouraged. I have been trying for the last 5 years to exercise to lose weight. I always do well, until about 6 weeks in I become ill. Usually with a chest cold, a fever, sometimes bronchitis. My doctors are trying to help me, but it's baffling. I just started an exercise class 4 weeks ago ...

I have been to 3 GP's and 3 specialists over the last three years and no one can tell me what is wrong with me. My main complaint is shortness of breath, fatigue, very itchy skin with no rash and congestion/ringing in the ears. I'm at the end of my rope. Can anyone help figure out what is wrong with ...

A chronic cough or change in breathing shouldn't be dismissed as smoker's cough or a sign of being out of shape. These can be early symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary artery disease (COPD). The August issue of Mayo Clinic Health Letter discusses COPD, a progressive lung disease ...

Parents of children with chronic cough may suffer from additional stress and worry beyond the normal stress of parenting. In a new study, Australian researchers administered questionnaires measuring anxiety, depression, stress, and burden of cough to 79 parents of 190 children who ...

Cough is a symptom of many respiratory diseases; however, a new study shows that chronic cough may affect quality of life differently, based on a patient's disease. Researchers from Ireland administered three health-related quality of life (HRQoL) questionnaires to 147 outpatients ...

A coroner has ordered an investigation into claims a cough medicine triggered an asthma attack that killed a 15-year-old boy.

News briefs from the August issue of the journal Chest feature studies on obesity and asthma, how chronic cough affects quality of life, and how chronic cough in children adds to parental stress.

Today's episode of "W.T.F?" finds your heroine, Busy Mom, unable to go downstairs in her own home without having an asthma attack. And her teenage daughter is in the middle of hosting a party. With boys. Let us go back in time: Busy Mom woke up this morning feeling none better, and set out ...

On July 21, nationally syndicated radio host Michael Savage recast comments he made about autism in order to claim that he was "take(n) out of context." Savage falsely suggested that his July 16 comments -- which have generated widespread media attention and sparked protests -- distinguished between ...

Opened the door to smog city and saw the air. It looked like dust floating, like particles rising from a room under construction or deconstruction. But no construction going on that I could see (probably one of the few places that’s c-free in Toronto). My lungs instantly rebelled. I’d forgotten my asthma ...