News and media

We work to raise the profile of asthma in the media in Wales and to keep health professionals and people with asthma informed about the latest developments in asthma care and research. For enquiries about any aspect of media work including local spokespeople, case studies and comments on asthma in Wales, please call our media office on 020 7786 4949.

 Asthma UK Cymru media releases 

• Lack of awareness in Wales putting children with asthma at risk
• Millennium Stadium Charitable Trusts supports Alert to Asthma in Wales
• Advice for asthma sufferers as temperatures set to plummet
• Asthma UK Cymru launches report on the state of asthma services and care in Wales
• Unacceptable differences in emergency hospital admissions for adults and children with asthma in Wales revealed
• True danger of asthma highlighted in new campaign (151 kb)
• Asthma UK Cymru comment on the decision by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to approve the drug Xolair for use
• Speak to an asthma specialist at the Healthy Living Week exhibition
• Asthma UK Cymru advice for a flu-free winter
• ‘Traffic pollution leaves us choking’, say more than three in five with asthma
• Mould removal ‘eases asthma’
• Ex-sprinter prepares for gruelling fundraising challenge
• People with asthma in Wales most concerned about steroid medication
• Asthma UK Cymru and Haynes launch health booklet in style of iconic ‘car maintenance’ manuals
• School teachers receive life-saving asthma training
• Asthma UK out in force in Cardiff on World Asthma Day (104 kb)
• Asthma UK Cymru hails double breakthrough
• Asthma UK Cymru calls for greater Government
• Public ignorant about asthma attacks: Asthma UK Cymru
• One third of children with asthma miss out on sport once a week in Wales
• Asthma In Wales – The True Picture Revealed
• Asthma UK Cymru announces new Kick Asthma holiday in Wales