Asthma care continues to develop, particularly in how treatment and long-term management are approached. This article outlines current treatment and management recommendations for patients aged 12 and ...
Credit: Getty Images The GINA 2024 asthma update includes new guidance on medications, monitoring, treatment goals, remission, cough variant asthma, children, and more. The Global Initiative for ...
As evidenced by a debate at the CHEST Annual Meeting 2023, the pulmonology community disagrees on whether the overlap of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a distinct entity ...
A recent trial finds an injection given during some asthma and COPD attacks is more effective than the current treatment of steroid tablets, reducing the need for further treatment by 30%. An ...
Objective Anxiety affects up to one-third of adults with asthma and is linked to poorer disease outcomes and reduced quality ...
A peak flow meter is a simple, small, hand-held tool that can help you maintain control of asthma by providing a measurement of how well air moves out of the lungs. After blowing into the device, the ...
PARIS — Pregnancy is a period of asthma instability; it entails an increased risk for exacerbations. While therapeutic de-escalation, if not the outright cessation of maintenance treatment, is common, ...
In December 2021, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Tezspire (tezepelumab-ekko; Amgen, Inc and AstraZeneca AB), a thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) blocker, for the add-on ...
Asthma is one of the most common long-term health conditions, so why does getting diagnosed and treated still rely on where you live, who you visit, or even your ethnicity? To commemorate World Asthma ...
Regarding who can use these inhalers, NHS guidelines state: "Most adults can use beclometasone inhalers for asthma or COPD.
An injection given during some asthma and COPD attacks is more effective than the current treatment of steroid tablets, reducing the need for further treatment by 30%. The findings, published today in ...