GPs play a pivotal role in ensuring patients with respiratory and other chronic conditions are equipped to deal with the challenges of the bushfire season.
Asthma
Bronchial asthma and cardiac asthma
Cardiac asthma is not a form of asthma, but actually breathing difficulties caused by heart failure. Find out how it differs from bronchial asthma.
Asthma and gastro-oesophageal reflux
Asthma and gastro-oesophageal reflux disease often occur together, but does one condition trigger the other?
Asthma, pregnancy and breastfeeding
Your most pressing questions about asthma and its impact on breastfeeding, answered.
Can you overuse your blue asthma puffer?
The blue puffer – known as a reliever – should only be used when a person with asthma is wheezing and feeling tight. But many use it too often.
Are people with asthma more at risk of COVID-19?
The question of whether asthma makes you more at risk of COVID-19 disease waxes and wanes.
Asthma and sleep
Researchers investigate the association between asthma and sleep disturbance in adolescents and young adults.
Asthma control in Australia
Researchers investigated how well asthma is controlled in Australia and its association with asthma related outcomes in Australians aged 16 years and over with asthma.
A message from thunderstorm asthma
The thunderstorm asthma event in Melbourne saw thousands of people turning up in emergency departments telling us that many asthmatics don’t recognise that their condition is worse than it is.
Asthma self-care
Asthma affects the airways leading to your lungs. Your airways tighten, become inflamed and fill up with mucus, making breathing more difficult. Find out what products are available for asthma.
