Asthma

Pharmacists embedded within primary care or specialty clinics can assist patients and their caregivers in teaching proper inhaler technique. Pharmacist-led education on inhaler techni...

Aug 08, 2022

Initial and consistent fractured exhaled nitric oxide measurements can help identify asthma-related morbidity in children living in urban areas.   Asthma affects every age group, ...

Jun 08, 2022

High-intensity interval training resulted in a 24% reduction in daily inhaled corticosteroids after 6 months without compromising asthma control, according to a new randomized controlled tri...

May 18, 2022

Patients with severe, uncontrolled asthma demonstrated overall 2.8-fold higher odds of improved clinical responses to tezepelumab than placebo, including exacerbation reduction, better asthm...

May 18, 2022

The phase 3 Liberty Asthma VOYAGE trial reported that dupilumab reduced severe asthma exacerbation rates and also improved overall lung function in children with moderate-to-severe asthma, i...

May 18, 2022

In patients with uncontrolled moderate-to-severe asthma, the risk of asthmatic exacerbation was significantly reduced when patients used a fixed-dose inhaler with a combination of albuterol ...

May 18, 2022

Only one-third of patients with asthma treated with inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) had a regular or post-exacerbation follow-up visit within a 15-month period. This was the case, regardless o...

Apr 26, 2022

Clinicians should consider extending telemedicine in routine clinical practice to manage severe asthma, as well as other chronic respiratory diseases. Research has shown that patients...

Apr 14, 2022

Support from parents and healthcare providers is critical in helping adolescents manage their asthma care, according to a study published in the Journal of Asthma. Researchers explored wh...

Apr 04, 2022

Most adolescents with severe asthma who transitioned from a pediatric pulmonology care center to an adult facility were able to successfully manage their asthma and preserve respiratory func...

Apr 04, 2022

WEDNESDAY, March 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Patterns of clinic and emergency department acute care use differ for non-Hispanic Black and Spanish-preferring Latine versus non-Hispanic White...

Mar 31, 2022

Studies examining associations of early-life cat and dog ownership with childhood asthma have reported inconsistent results. Several factors could explain these inconsistencies, including ty...

Feb 14, 2022

Pulmonary medicine consultation during hospital admission may impact management of critical asthma by increasing escalation of controller medication and scheduled outpatient follow up, accor...

Jan 19, 2022

In children with severe asthma (SA), targeting small airways with high-dose inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) using a smart nebulizer resulted in a significant reduction in exacerbations requiri...

Jan 18, 2022

Foster score, a self-reported inhaled corticosteroid adherence score for patients with asthma, demonstrated poor agreement with objective measures of adherence, suggesting that the score alo...

Jan 14, 2022

With some exceptions, people with asthma are not at a higher risk for more severe disease, hospitalization, or death due to COVID-19, according to Anne K. Ellis, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FAAAAI, and ...

Jan 12, 2022

In selected asthma patients, blood eosinophil count predicts response to inhaled corticosteroids and certain biologic treatments. Despite its critical significance, fundamental elements of e...

Jan 12, 2022

Eradicating Helicobacter pylori bacterium increases the morbidities of asthma and other allergic diseases, according to existing epidemiological studies. Therefore, Zhi Tong Zuo and colleagu...

Jan 11, 2022

MONDAY, Jan. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Interventions that promote physical activity have significant benefits in terms of increasing physical activity, decreasing sedentary time, and impr...

Jan 10, 2022

Effective management of severe asthma (SA) requires a partnership (shared decision making) between a patient and their health care provider (HCP), in addition to ongoing treatment modificati...

Jan 10, 2022