Asthma News

• Asthma Prescribing Choice Affects Greenhouse Gas Emissions For every 10% of metered-dose inhalers replaced with dry powder inhalers, greenhouse gas emissions could be reduced and millions of dollars per year could be saved as well, a study found.
  Medscape Medical News, November 15, 2019
• ACAAI 2019Transgender Care Ill Served by Sex-Specific Test Values Medical tests with sex-specific reference ranges can pose a problem for clinicians with transgender patients, and specialists are calling for new standards.
  Medscape Medical News, November 15, 2019
• WCN 2019Environmental Contamination Linked to Neurologic Disorders Contaminants in air, water, and food are linked directly or epidemiologically to neurologic diseases and neurodevelopmental disorders. Nanoparticle solids and endocrine disruptors are major factors.
  Medscape Medical News, November 12, 2019
• ACAAI 2019Vaginal Birth and Breastfeeding Linked to Less Allergy Records from the births of more than 158,000 children suggest that method of birth and newborn feeding practices can influence future health.
  Medscape Medical News, November 12, 2019
• Cigarettes vs Vaping the 'Wrong Comparison,' Researcher Says An inhalation toxicologist believes e-cigarettes should not be compared with traditional, combustible cigarettes because vaping products expose consumers to chemicals in a fundamentally different way.
  Kaiser Health News, November 12, 2019
• E-Cigs, Vaping Linked to Nonspecific Imaging Findings Using electronic cigarettes or vaping is associated with lung injury that can appear as nonspecific findings on chest radiography and CT, researchers report.
  Reuters Health Information, November 07, 2019
• Juul Disregarded Early Evidence It Was Hooking Teens The San Francisco startup that invented the groundbreaking Juul e-cigarette had a central goal during its development: captivating users with the first hit.
  Reuters Health Information, November 05, 2019
• Glutathione May Benefit Lung Function in Cystic Fibrosis Inhaled and oral glutathione may benefit lung function in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), although vitamin and mineral antioxidant supplementation does not appear to have a positive treatment effect, an updated Cochrane Review reveals.
  Reuters Health Information, October 30, 2019
• Reslizumab Appears Helpful in Refractory Asthma Intravenous reslizumab (Cinquair, Teva) appears beneficial in patients with inadequately controlled oral-corticosteroid-dependent asthma, according to post-hoc analyses.
  Reuters Health Information, October 25, 2019
• Antibiotics Overprescribed for COPD Antibiotics are overprescribed for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and particularly for mild-to-moderate disease, a large observational study reveals.
  Reuters Health Information, October 23, 2019
• Most Preterm Babies Are Healthy in Adulthood More than half of premature infants grow up to be healthy adults without chronic medical issues, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, October 22, 2019
• Alert FDA Expands Xofluza to People at High-Risk for Flu Complications People at high risk for serious flu complications are those with conditions such as asthma, chronic lung disease, diabetes, heart disease, morbid obesity, or adults aged 65 years or older.
  FDA Approvals, October 17, 2019
• U.S. Migrant Policy Sends Thousands of Children Including Hundreds of Babies Back to Mexico Since January, the U.S. government has ordered 13,000 migrants under 18, including more than 400 infants, to wait with their families in Mexico for U.S. immigration court hearings, a Reuters analysis of government data found.
  Reuters Health Information, October 11, 2019
• Democrat Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Cap Nicotine Content in Vapes A U.S. lawmaker on Monday introduced a bill that seeks to regulate e-cigarette makers by capping the amount of nicotine in the vapes they manufacture to make them less addictive.
  Reuters Health Information, October 07, 2019
• Alert FDA OKs Asthma Drug Benralizumab (Fasenra) for At-Home Use The Fasenra Pen is a prefilled, single-use autoinjector for use as adjunctive maintenance treatment for adults and for children aged 12 years or older who have severe eosinophilic asthma.
  FDA Approvals, October 04, 2019
• ERS 2019BPA Exposure in Pregnancy Can Affect Lung Health of Children Children of women exposed to endocrine disruptors during pregnancy can suffer respiratory effects years later, adding to existing concerns about health risks related to bisphenol A (BPA).
  Medscape Medical News, October 02, 2019
• Banned in Boston: Without Vaping, Medical Marijuana Patients Must Adapt In the first few days of the four-month ban on all vaping products in Massachusetts, Laura Lee Medeiros, a medical marijuana patient, began to worry.
  Reuters Health Information, October 01, 2019
• Big Changes in Asthma Treatment in New Global Guidelines The new guidelines change recommendations for quick-relief medication on the basis of data from numerous trials. Some experts say the guidelines have not gone far enough.
  Medscape Medical News, October 01, 2019
• AstraZeneca's Combo Lung Disease Therapy Fails to Win FDA Approval The U.S. Food and Drug Administration declined to approve AstraZeneca Plc's combination therapy to treat smoker's lung, the drugmaker said on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, October 01, 2019
• ERS 2019One Inhaler Effective for Asthma Triple Therapy
  Medscape Medical News, October 01, 2019