Patients with severe asthma who use an internet to help daily monitoring of exhaled nitric oxide (FENO) were able to control their asthma with lower overall dosing of oral corticosteroids (OCS) than patients who underwent usual care, according to research from the Netherlands. Simone Hashimoto, M.D....

A computer-based character providing personalised treatment aims to cut the number of deaths from asthma among teenage sufferers in the U.S. The character, called DJ Puffman, is part of a new healthcare programme, which uses new ways of interacting with youngsters to reduce the number of fatalities....

It seems that not a day goes past without a new 'crowdsourcing' healthcare application for the iPhone. This week sees the release of AsthmaMD, a new app that patients can use to log asthma attacks and share information with a physician. Available now for the iPhone, it functions like a portable...

People with diabetes, asthma and a host of other conditions have carried information about their condition in case of an emergency for decades. Now the American Ambulance Association, the largest network of emergency medical service providers in the US, hopes that the Facebook and Twitter generation...