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…
Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS), fixed airway obstruction, and male sex are independent predictors of asthma exacerbations in patients aged ≥65 years, according to study results published in Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Research.…
Melissa I. Alvarez Asthma-specific questionnaires may reveal a more targeted method for identifying psychological comorbidities in patients with chronic asthma, according to study results published in the Journal of Asthma. Researchers…
On this year’s World Asthma Day, various research organizations, medical societies and patient advocacy groups are seeking to raise awareness about this common respiratory disease and the current research into…