Number of asthma sufferers set to soar

MORE than 30 million people in Europe have asthma and deaths have reached 180,000 a year, with one person dying every hour.

The cost is now an estimated €27 billion a year but diagnosis, treatment and medication is lagging behind research according to a conference of experts in Brussels.

Too often there is an incorrect diagnosis of the type of lung ailment and the wrong medication is prescribed.