New noninvasive asthma test may help doctors tailor treatment for kids

Impacting millions of children in the U.S. alone, asthma can be particularly problematic to diagnose with specificity — leaving the majority of kids without treatments that target their subtype of the condition. Using a new, noninvasive nose swab test, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have for the first time detected multiple asthma subtypes in children with the condition, which ...