Moderate to Severe Asthma: News

• Woman Recovering After Rare Windpipe Transplant From Donor Doctors say the drastic operation could potentially help other people left with serious windpipe damage from ventilators, including patients with COVID-19.
  Associated Press, April 06, 2021
• CDC Adds New Medical Conditions to COVID-19 High-Risk List Type 1 diabetes, liver disease, HIV, moderate asthma, overweight, and a number of neurologic conditions are now included, as some states proceed to open up vaccine availability to all adults.
  Medscape Medical News, March 31, 2021
• HRT Tied to Increased Risk of Severe Asthma Exacerbation Hormone replacement therapy may increase the risk of severe asthma exacerbations in peri- and post-menopausal asthmatic women, an observational study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, March 26, 2021
• AAAAI 2021 Patients With Asthma Using Mepolizumab Had Fewer Exacerbations "Mepolizumab has clearly been shown to improve severe asthma control in many clinical trials, but atopy, obesity, and depression/anxiety affect patients with asthma at an increased rate."
  Medscape Medical News, March 03, 2021
• AAAAI 2021 Asthma Patients Say Most Doctors Don't Ask About Cannabis Use Among individuals with asthma and allergies who use cannabis, more than half said they aren't willing to discuss their use of cannabis with their doctor and their doctor doesn't ask.
  Medscape Medical News, March 02, 2021
• Bronchial Thermoplasty Benefits for Uncontrolled Asthma Sustained at 10 Years The benefits of bronchial thermoplasty in patients with uncontrolled asthma are sustained over at least 10 years, according to results of the BT10+ study.
  Reuters Health Information, February 19, 2021
• Benralizumab Improves Health-Related Quality of Life in Severe Eosinophilic Asthma Results of a phase 3b trial confirm and extend the efficacy of benralizumab for severe eosinophilic asthma, showing early and sustained improvements in patient-reported outcomes and quality of life.
  Reuters Health Information, January 15, 2021
• Asthma-COPD Overlap: Patients Have High Disease Burden Patients with asthma–chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap (ACO) experienced a higher burden of disease than patients with either asthma or COPD alone, a recent study has found.
  Medscape Medical News, January 15, 2021
• Disinfecting During Pandemic Puts Asthmatics at Risk Increased cleaning by people with asthma during the pandemic may be triggering flares of their disease, a new report suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, January 04, 2021
• Landmark Ruling Links Death of UK Schoolgirl to Pollution Air pollution contributed to the death of a London schoolgirl, a coroner ruled on Wednesday in a landmark case that could push Britain to get tougher on traffic and clean up city air.
  Reuters Health Information, December 16, 2020
• Asthma Guidelines Update FeNO, Intermittent ICS Use The updated guidelines address six priority topics but notably exclude any recommendations for the use of fast-emerging biological therapy.
  Medscape Medical News, December 16, 2020
• Oral Contraceptives May Curb Severe Asthma Attacks in Young Women Premenopausal women with asthma who use oral contraception that contains estrogen may be less likely to experience severe exacerbations, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, November 23, 2020
• Anti-IL-5 Biologics Effective for Up to 2 Years in Severe Asthma, but Residual Disease Remains More than 80% of patients with severe asthma responded to anti-IL-5 biologics in a 2-year follow-up study, but 69% experienced persistent airflow obstruction, uncontrolled asthma symptoms and other signs of residual disease.
  Reuters Health Information, October 29, 2020
• CHEST 2020 No Evidence to Guide Selection of Biologic for Severe Asthma Many patients see a tremendous improvement in their severe asthma when they take a biologic, but there is no guidance to identify which biologic works best in which patient.
  Medscape Medical News, October 30, 2020
• Extracorporeal CO2 Removal Effective in Status Asthmaticus Venovenous extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal (ECCO2R) may be lifesaving in patients with status asthmaticus refractory to maximal medical therapy, according to a retrospective review.
  Reuters Health Information, October 22, 2020
• Asthma Rescue With Budesonide-Formoterol Cuts Short-Term Flare Risk Patients with mild asthma who aren't adhering to maintenance therapy have a lower short-term risk of severe exacerbations after a single day of increased use of as-needed budesonide-formoterol, according to a post-hoc analysis from the SYGMA 1 study.
  Reuters Health Information, October 09, 2020
• Family, Preschool Asthma Education Improve Low-Income Kids' Asthma Control Children with asthma enrolled in Head Start preschool programs have better outcomes when they receive home-based asthma education for families in addition to asthma support in school, a new trial suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, October 06, 2020
• ERS 2020 Oral Masitinib Phase 3 Results Promising for Severe Asthma The tyrosine kinase inhibitor reduced severe exacerbations by 35%, regardless of eosinophil count, in a population that hasn't had an effective oral treatment option, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, September 11, 2020
• Limited Evidence Supports Escalation of Therapy for Acute Asthma Exacerbations in Kids Various interventions might improve outcomes in children with acute asthma exacerbations, according to an overview of systematic reviews from the Cochrane Collaboration.
  Reuters Health Information, September 04, 2020
• Is Asthma a Risk Factor for Severe SARS-CoV-2 Pneumonia? Patients with asthma appear not to have an elevated risk for severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia, nor does such pneumonia seem to induce severe asthma exacerbation, according to researchers in France.
  Reuters Health Information, July 17, 2020