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Asthma is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

Asthma has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on October 5, 2005.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
August 11, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
September 2, 2005	Featured article candidate	Promoted
July 9, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
December 14, 2008	Featured article review	Demoted
November 9, 2010	Peer review	Reviewed
January 27, 2013	Good article nominee	Listed
Current status: Former featured article, current good article

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Ideal sources for Wikipedia's health content are defined in the guideline Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) and are typically review articles. Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about Asthma.

PubMed provides review articles from the past five years (limit to free review articles)
The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine.
Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC