Can asthma be cured? What are the latest treatments?

Javeed Akhter, M.D., Section Head of Pediatric Pulmonology at Hope Children's Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill., offers the following answer:
Asthma is an eminently controllable illness. Indeed, for most sufferers, control is so effective that it amounts to a virtual cure. But asthma is not curable in the same way as, say, a bacterial pneumonia; it never entirely goes away. Also, no one cure would ever suffice. It is becoming increasingly clear that there many types of asthma--and they differ greatly in their presentation and genesis. For example, asthma that presents as a chronic cough, the "cough variant of asthma," appears to be very different from the life-threatening variety, which results in extreme respiratory failure and sometimes death.....

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Study Sees Link Between Insomnia, Asthma

Posted December 19, 2016
FRIDAY, Dec. 9, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Insomnia is common in adults with asthma and tied to worse asthma control and other health problems, a new study finds.
University of Pittsburgh researchers found that 37 percent of adults with asthma also had significant insomnia. Those with insomnia had worse lung function. They also weighed more. And they tended to have lower incomes than those without insomnia, the study found.....

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Home Visits Reveal Biggest Challenges of Low-Income Asthma Patients

Low-income minority adults account for the greater portion of asthma-related deaths and hospitalizations. However, most asthma studies do not focus on these particular patients or where they live — often in complicated, difficult circumstances — and instead tend to lean toward the greater convenience of recruiting patients to clinics.....

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