Eric Wertzer

Nearly half of asthma deaths in the United Kingdom could likely have been prevented, researchers there found.

No one would subject people to chlorine gas exposure on purpose, but an industrial accident that did so yielded useful data on how much gas people can take without getting harmed.

Clinicians often hear parents of asthmatic children tell them their child is wheezing. But parents' definition of wheezing usually is different from that of physicians.

In the ten years since the US Surgeon General's ground-breaking report on the dangers of secondhand smoke, there has been much progress--and pockets of fierce resistance to smoking bans.

Getting parents with children who have asthma to use primary care doctors to control the condition can be difficult in urban settings where emergency rooms are commonly used for asthma visits. A team reports on using electronic communications to get these patients to their PCPs instead.

Girls who are obese are more likely to also have asthma than are obese boys.

Nearly 1,000 rheumatoid arthritis patients members who follow the creakyjoints.org site said they would be willing to be research subjects.

Researchers are significantly closer to establishing biomarkers for the effective treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

An experimental monoclonal antibody appears effective in treating rheumatoid arthritis.