Newly published research in JAMA presents an alternative: a nasal swab test that researchers say accurately diagnoses a child’s asthma subtype. Researchers used the new tests in three studies of ...

Introduction The under- and over-diagnosis of asthma is widespread and may cause significant risks to patients. There is no single gold standard test to diagnose asthma. There remains considerable ...

In some moderate or severe cases, figuring out which type of asthma a child has can help doctors match patients with proper treatment. But testing options have long been limited: Typically ...

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 ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - University of Pittsburgh researchers have developed a new nasal swab test to determine Asthma subtype results for kids. The study which was conducted by Dr. Juan Celedón a ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a nasal swab test for kids that diagnoses specific asthma subtype, or endotype. This non-invasive approach could help clinicians ...

Scientists at Rutgers Health have discovered that a simple blood test could diagnose asthma and determine its severity, a breakthrough that could transform how the disease is identified and monitored.

We kick off our first newsletter of 2025 with potentially good news for parents of children with asthma. We also report ... that we have a simple nasal swab test to detect other endotypes, we ...