The report, Asthma in Australia 2008, estimates that asthma affects more than 1 in 10 Australians -- equivalent to over 2 million people. Professor Guy Marks, Director of the Australian Centre for ...

Victorians have been warned to prepare for the possibility of thunderstorm asthma again this season. In temperate regions of Australia, thunderstorm asthma occurs when levels of grass pollen in the ...

Asthma is no fun at the best of times. On this occasion though, a rare storm triggered breathing problems for hordes of people in an Australian city. The unusual phenomenon called "thunderstorm asthma ...

Six people are dead and five more remain in critical condition after another thunderstorm triggered an outbreak of asthma attacks on Monday in Melbourne, Australia, according to AP on Sunday. The ...

MELBOURNE, Australia - Six people have died and five remained on life support after a rare condition known as thunderstorm asthma struck Australia’s second-largest city, officials said on Sunday. The ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — A rare condition known as thunderstorm asthma sent hundreds of people to hospitals in Australia’s second-largest city, and four deaths had been confirmed by Wednesday. Family ...

Most of the children readmitted to hospitals for asthma in Australia were preschool aged. Hospital readmissions for asthma are not only increasing among children, children are returning to the ...

Authorities are defending the handling of changed public health advice relating to South Australia's algal bloom, amid ongoing warnings to asthmatics about contaminated sea spray. SA Health's ...

An unusual combination of weather conditions leading to a freak illness known as 'thunderstorm asthma' has left three people dead in Australia. Hundreds of people were rushed to hospital Monday with ...

Victorians have been warned to prepare for the possibility of thunderstorm asthma again this season. In temperate regions of Australia, thunderstorm asthma occurs when levels of grass pollen in the ...