After decades of slow progress in understanding and developing effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, scientists are ...

Alzheimer's disease affects millions of people worldwide, yet the illness is hardest to catch at the very beginning, when new ...

For many children diagnosed with asthma, pinpointing the particular nature of their case and finding appropriate treatment is far from simple. The lung disease, which affects more than 4.6 million ...

Diagnosing precisely what type of asthma a child has and fine-tuning the treatment for it involves an invasive procedure under general anesthesia. For children with mild asthma, it's just not worth ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a nasal swab test for children and youth that helps clinicians diagnose specific asthma subtypes, or endotypes, using nasal epithelial gene ...

Severity of a COVID-19 illness could be determined by examining autoantibodies in the nasal cavity, allowing more personalized treatment protocols. Severe COVID-19 can be life-threatening for patients ...