Brian Park, PharmD A phase 3 study evaluating the efficacy and safety of ciclesonide inhalation aerosol (Alvesco) in non-hospitalized patients aged ≥12 years with symptomatic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has…

Daily use of a fine particulate matter air filtration device can significantly improve airway mechanics and reduce airway resistance in children with asthma, according to a study recently published in JAMA…

Britt Gambino Patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) appear to have increased their adherence to inhaler medications in the wake of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic,…

Ackermann M, et al. N Engl J Med. 2020;doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2015432.Hariri L, et al. N Engl J Med. 2020;doi:10.1056/NEJMe2018629. Patients who died from COVID-19-associated respiratory failure had more intussusceptive angiogenesis in their lungs than…

Patients with severe asthma and with vs without chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis (CRSwNP) were found to have more asthma exacerbations and to be more likely to have long-term oral…

Research- Open Access Nilanjana Ghosh, Priyanka Choudhury, Sandeep Rai Kaushik, Rakesh Arya, Ranjan Nanda, Parthasarathi Bhattacharyya, Sushmita Roychowdhury, Rintu Banerjee & Koel Chaudhury  Respiratory Research volume 21, Article number: 126 (2020)  Abstract Background Asthma-COPD overlap (ACO) refers to a group of poorly studied and…

Tori Rodriguez, MA, LPC, AHC Despite significant advances in asthma treatment in the past decades, the disease is still poorly controlled in an estimated 50% of patients, and causes thousands…