'For me, it felt like a complete wonder drug and I can’t wait for it to be available,' says a trial patient

'You can’t put a cow in every family’s house, but we may be able to protect children from asthma by finding a way to re-create the time-tested Amish experience'

Asthma could be stopped by switching off the gene which causes it, British scientists found

'It is staggering to think that the mother's wilful actions resulted in the children undergoing unnecessary surgical and medical interventions. She lied at every opportunity.'

Experts are asking for people to log their symptoms in the #BritainBreathing app

Nice has warned that doctors too often diagnose asthma based on a history of wheezing, coughs and other breathing problems, rather than clinical tests

15-year-old Anthony Ruelas carried a stricken classmate from the room after she fell out of her chair

Study finds children who have dogs in the house had about a 15%  decreased risk of developing the condition

Chuckling too hard can even lead to heart ruptures, torn gullets and incontinence

If a person chooses to gulp down poisons, that’s their decision. But children, who have no choice, shouldn’t be subjected to smoke in the stuffy, airless environment of a car

Scientists have discovered a blood clotting protein they believe contributes towards allergic asthma, a finding that could help develop more targeted treatments in the future.

Incentive payments encourage GPs to closely monitor adult patients – but not children

For decades women have been cajoled to breastfeed their babies with slogans such as "breast is best." Now researchers have criticised the approach, saying it is "idealistic" and "sets parents up to fail", and that greater recognition of the multiple demands new parents face would reap greater dividends.

Two days down and a dozen in the bag. It is as stark as that; finish in the top two and inside the required time and a place at the home Games is the reward. There is no more crushing championships in which to win a bronze – then endure the medal ceremony – than these Olympics trials and the unifying emotion of all the qualifiers, be it Rebecca Adlington, with her two Olympic golds, or 17-year-old Craig Benson, who grabbed his place in the 100m breaststroke by three-hundredths of a second, was simple: relief.

New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, has died in eastern Syria after slipping into the country to report on the uprising against its president.

The impeccably hip credentials of HN's Roberto Carlos Lange (exotic Ecuador to Florida to Brooklyn background; he's an artist doing a "project"; album recorded in the middle of a field in Connecticut, etc) are rather at odds with the wonderfully gloopy Latin-cheese of this Spanish language, old school synth-session's best tracks.