Bradley Van Paridon | The availability of asthma and COPD treatments in low- and middle-income countries falls far short of the WHO goal for access to essential medicines. Essential medicines for treating…
Abstract Background Some clinical indicators have been reported to be useful in differentiating asthma-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) overlap (ACO) from pure asthma/COPD, but the results were inconsistent. This study…
SummaryRecent advances in the study of asthma have led to the development of novel treatment approaches for severe and uncontrolled asthma. Additionally, data on Short Acting Beta Agonist (SABA) use…
Boulton, A.P.R. and Shen, Y. (2022), Anti-interleukin-4 or -13 agents for treating asthma. Clin Exp Allergy. https://doi.org/10.1111/cea.14242 Key Messages Patients with severe asthma may have inadequate responses to therapies targeting immunoglobulin…
Ron Goldberg Dupilumab (DPL) reduced the oral corticosteroid (OCS) dose needed by individuals with OCS-dependent severe asthma, regardless of their baseline OCS dosage, and maintained and improved their asthma outcomes,…
Colby Stong Patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have increased airway wall thickness and reduced airway counts on computed tomography (CT) in segments in which there is…
Research. Open Access Fang Yi, Chen Zhan, Baojuan Liu, Hu Li, Jianmeng Zhou, Jiaman Tang, Wen Peng, Wei Luo, Qiaoli Chen & Kefang Lai Respiratory Research volume 23, Article number: 279 (2022) Abstract Background Whether cysteinyl-leukotriene receptor antagonists (LTRAs) have a similar antitussive effect to…
Sheila Jacobs Training patients with asthma in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) improves clinically relevant outcomes and may therefore enhance asthma management, especially among those with comorbid psychopathology, according to study…
Tori Rodriguez, MA, LPC, AHC More than 1100 wildfires burned in the US during the month of September, according to the Fire, Weather, and Avalanche Center1 — a situation that, according…
Sheila Jacobs Children with severe and nonsevere asthma are at risk for poor lung function trajectories into adulthood, with several clinically relevant factors predictive of changes in forced expiratory volume…