Parents of children with asthma have been found wanting when it comes to managing the condition, evidenced by the almost one in eight who had to bring their child to the emergency department last year.

New ways to reduce the cost of asthma-related illnesses to the Irish state will be outlined in a report being unveiled by the Asthma Society of Ireland later today.

Gentle touch

¦ I suffer from mild asthma and have recently been prescribed an inhaler.

A north Indian state is investigating after eyes went missing from two bodies at state hospitals.

EVEN though Derek Jennings worked in addiction support, he didn’t know his own child had started using drugs. “Being a man, I said, ‘I’ll stop it’,” he says of his 14-year-old’s addiction.

BABIES given paracetamol are twice as likely to develop asthma by the age of six, research shows.

ALMOST nine out of 10 people would feel uncomfortable about helping a child who is having an asthma attack, a survey reveals.

AFTER a boozy and smoky Christmas period of overindulgence, it’s almost time for the annual New Year’s resolutions of abstinence to kick in.

Vital advice and support will be at the touch of a button for almost half a million asthma sufferers across Ireland, it emerged today.

ASTHMA sufferers have been warned that they could be risking their lives by using drugs that treat the most severe form of the disease.