Rita Aghjayan High-risk children living in urban neighborhoods in the United States develop specific phenotypes of respiratory health vs disease, which may link environmental exposures in early life to childhood…

Research – Open Access Mohsen Sadatsafavi, Amir Khakban, Hamid Tavakoli, Solmaz Ehteshami-Afshar, Larry D. Lynd & J. Mark FitzGerald  Respiratory Research volume 22, Article number: 103 (2021)  Abstract Background Oral corticosteroids are important components of pharmacotherapy in severe asthma. Our objective…

Brandon May Azithromycin has been previously shown to reduce the duration and severity of asthma episodes in children, but the mechanisms behind these actions have remained largely undefined. Findings from…

GINA has updated its interim guidance about COVID-19 and asthma, including new advice about COVID-19 vaccines.            DOWNLOAD SLIDES

Britt Gambino This feature is part of the Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month series. What’s Asthma Got to Do With Autoimmunity? Although asthma and autoimmune disease are thought to have mutually…

Bryant Moeller Children with asthma had improved outcomes during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, most likely because of lower exposure to triggers, according to the results of a…

Sheila Jacobs Machine learning modules can be trained with the use of electronic health record (EHR) data to differentiate between transient and persistent cases of early childhood asthma, according the…

Bryant Moeller Good adherence to treatment for severe asthma was reported by 35% of patients, either via self-report or direct measurements, but the agreement between the 2 methods was poor,…

Kerry Leupold, DO The Respiratory Symptoms Questionnaire (RSQ), a simple 4-item tool designed to assess symptoms and severity of respiratory symptoms independent of diagnosis, is a valid and useful tool…

Clinicians are encouraged to team with school employees, asthma educators and patient advocates to improve the health and well-being of patients with asthma, panelists said. The speakers described three different…