Asthma

Reaching for Air: Four Utahns installed sensors built by Columbia University’s Brown Institute in their homes. Here’s what they found.

While Utah is just beginning to address the dust from the Great Salt Lake, Californians living near the Salton Sea are dealing with dust storms and health risks.

The health effects of living in bad air, experts say, are comparable to what smoking does to the body. And the economic effects, as health problems lead to higher medical bills and lost time at work and school, can also take a toll.

A new program targets people who are at higher risk of health complications from wildfire smoke.

“Reaching for Air” profundizará en la contaminación y cómo afecta a los residentes del oeste.

Reaching for Air is a collaboration between KUER and The Salt Lake Tribune that amplifies the air quality stories of west side residents.

A new report from the Utah Department of Health shows that Utahns with asthma also have higher rates of depression.Asthma and depression have been linked…

Doctors at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City are seeing a significant increase in respiratory illness over the past two weeks. They have…

Air quality along the Wasatch front this week has reached levels above what the federal government deems safe, and doctors at Intermountain Medical Center…

The wife of LDS President Thomas Monson passes away, the University of Utah receives a grant to research child asthma, and some members of the Utah…

The University of Utah has received a 1.9 million dollar research grant to study asthma in children and how better monitoring of the disease could improve…

Some doctors are criticizing the state’s newly-released plan to help those with asthma. The plan advises asthmatics to avoid pollution, but the President…