Asthma News

• Air Quality Linked to Cardiac Events, Heart Disease Patients Unaware Poor air quality with high levels of tiny pollution particles known as PM2.5 are tied to a spike in emergency department visits for cardiac- and lung-related illnesses and stroke, a California study suggests, but a nationwide U.S. survey finds that few heart patients are aware of air quality risks.
  Reuters Health Information, April 2018
• COPD Now Afflicts More Women Than Men in US Barbara Bush’s case highlights that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) — a disease linked to long-term smoking and traditionally considered a men’s disease — is now more prevalent among women.
  Kaiser Health News, April 2018
• Community Collaboration Improves Asthma Control The AIR Louisville Collaborative's pairing of data analysis on corticosteroid use with a patient asthma management app led to less rescue inhaler use and more symptom-free days.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018
• Acid Suppressors in Early Infancy Linked to Allergies Later Infants who received acid-suppressive medications and antibiotics during the first 6 months of life were at higher risk for allergic diseases later in childhood, a large study found.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018
• Allergen-specific Immunotherapy Reduces Medication Use in Pediatric Asthma Subcutaneous immunotherapy (SCIT) reduces long-term asthma-medication use in children with allergic asthma, according to a systematic review.
  Reuters Health Information, April 2018
• Childhood Measles Indirectly Affects Airflow Obstruction in Middle Age
  Reuters Health Information, March 2018
• Gene Variants Tied to Albuterol Response in Minority Kids With Asthma A new genome-wide association study has identified variants associated with worse albuterol response in African American and Puerto Rican children with asthma.
  Reuters Health Information, March 2018
• Reviews Reveal Benefits of LAMAs, LABAs, and SMART in Asthma Two systematic reviews found LAMAs effective but not superior to LABAs as adjunct to inhaled corticosteroids, and single maintenance and reliever therapy had greater benefit within limits.
  Medscape Medical News, March 2018
• Exercise Improves Asthma in Obese Adults
  Reuters Health Information, March 2018
• AAAAIIncreasing Inhaled Steroids Curbs Asthma in Adults A temporary quadrupling of inhaled glucocorticoids can reduce severe asthma exacerbations in adults, new data show.
  Medscape Medical News, March 2018
• New Asthma Assessment and Management Tool Improves Outcomes Clinical practices using APGAR tool saw reductions in patients' asthma-related healthcare visits and greater control of their asthma, but little change in asthma-related quality of life.
  Medscape Medical News, March 2018
• US Adult Obesity Rate Jumped Over Last 20 Years In the latest report from the National Center for Health Statistics, diagnosed diabetes increased from 5.1% to 9.5% of the population from 1997 to 2017. Smoking rates have taken a sharp drop.
  Medscape Medical News, March 2018
• Bronchial Thermoplasty: A Viable Option for Severe Asthma? Bronchial thermoplasty may be worth considering for patients with severe asthmatic cough who have not responded to more conventional treatments, according to a recent case report.
  Medscape Medical News, March 2018
• Experts Offer Advice for Extreme Allergic Reaction Parents and caregivers should know what to do when anaphylaxis occurs, according to a new resource published in JAMA March 6.
  Reuters Health Information, March 2018
• AAAAIAsthma Not Stopped by Boosting Inhaled Steroids in Children The common practice of quintupling the dose of inhaled glucocorticoids at the first sign of worsening asthma does not prevent exacerbations in children, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, March 2018
• Inhaled Triple Therapy Reduces COPD Exacerbations Inhaled triple therapy, consisting of inhaled corticosteroid, long-acting muscarinic antagonist, and long-acting beta2-agonist, reduces exacerbations in patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), compared with dual bronchodilator therapy, according to results from the TRIBUTE trial.
  Reuters Health Information, March 2018
• AAAAIEnvironmental Changes Exacerbating Allergy, Asthma
  Medscape Medical News, February 2018
• EU Panel Backs Two Triple Combo Drugs for COPD Maintenance CHF 5993 and Trydonis, from Chiesi Farmaceutici SpA, combine a glucocorticoid, a long-acting beta-2 receptor agonist, and a long-acting muscarinic antagonist.
  International Approvals, February 2018
• Mongolian Air Pollution Causing Health Crisis - UNICEF Smog in the Mongolia's capital, Ulaanbaatar, is causing a public health crisis, especially among children, with treatment costs likely to put the cash-strapped country under increasing strain, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said.
  Reuters Health Information, February 2018
• Aimmune's Peanut Allergy Drug Meets Main Goal, Shares Surge U.S. drug developer Aimmune Therapeutics Inc said on Tuesday its peanut allergy drug met the main goal of an eagerly awaited late-stage study, sending its shares up 18 percent premarket.
  Reuters Health Information, February 2018