New findings could help asthma fight

Findings that could help develop a new treatment for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have been announced by scientists.

The breakthrough, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, identifies a class of drugs that reverses the symptoms.

Researchers found the same drugs, when applied to lung samples obtained from human donors, showed effects similar to those seen in the animal models.

The scientists believe these combined findings offer hope these drugs could provide new medicines for human inflammatory lung diseases.