Asthma
Aug 08, 2022
Pharmacists embedded within primary care or specialty clinics can assist patients and their caregivers in teaching proper inhaler technique. Pharmacist-led education on inhaler technique improv...
Jun 08, 2022
Initial and consistent fractured exhaled nitric oxide measurements can help identify asthma-related morbidity in children living in urban areas. Â Asthma affects every age group, gender, ra...
May 18, 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 trial. In a t...
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 asthma control,...
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, independent...
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 and budeso...
Apr 14, 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 with seve...
Feb 14, 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 type of pet,...
Sep 15, 2021
Each year in the United States, about 15.4 million people are treated for asthma, but the impact of the disease extends beyond medical care, absenteeism, and mortality. “People with severe asthma ar...
Sep 13, 2021
“Asthma diagnosis and management are based on an unclear combination of subjective, symptom-based measurements (such as daytime and nighttime symptoms and activity impairment) and objective measurem...
Sep 01, 2021
This course discusses the key findings of five studies presented at the 2021 virtual American Thoracic Society International Conference....
Aug 27, 2021
While the occurrence of concomitant asthma and atopic dermatitis (AD) in patients is well known, the impact of the causal relationship between asthma and AD is not fully understood. Furthermore, data ...
Jul 15, 2021
The present work focuses on the ecotoxicological effects of montelukast sodium (MTL) and its photoproducts, obtained under environmentally-like conditions. Despite of the potential presence in surface...
May 20, 2021
New research was presented at ATS 2021, the virtual American Thoracic Society International Conference, from May 14-19. The features below highlight some of the studies presented via the online confer...
Apr 19, 2021
Mouse allergy is an important cause of indoor asthma and allergic rhinoconjunctivitis. The major mouse allergen, Mus m 1, is a complex of homologous pheromone-binding lipocalinscalled major urinary pr...
Feb 15, 2021
The ventricular arrhythmia (VA)-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) association and related risk factors remain unclear. Using 2001-2012 data from National Health Insurance Research Database,...
Feb 15, 2021
Fifteen states allow schools to manage respiratory emergencies among multiple students using a single albuterol inhaler (stock inhaler) paired with a disposable holding chamber.To evaluate implementat...
Feb 15, 2021
Air pollution has been documented to contribute to severe respiratory diseases like asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD). Although these diseases demonstrate a shift in the lung mi...
Jan 06, 2021
Onset and duration of action and ease of use were classified higher as important parameters to increase patients’ compliance, according to physicians’ perspectives reported in a study published in...
Jan 06, 2021
atient preference data for maintenance inhaler attributes can be used to identify a preference order of inhalers in different treatment classes, according to a study published in Respiratory Medicine....
