COPD News

• ATS 2020Triple-Therapy Combo Decreases COPD Exacerbations The combination of an inhaled corticosteroid, a long-acting muscarinic antagonist, and a long-acting beta2 agonist improves control of COPD exacerbations, findings from a phase 3 trial show.
  Medscape Medical News, July 20, 2020
• How Viruses Evolve May Affect Course of COVID-19 Pandemic Pathogens that switch to a new host species have some adapting to do. How does that affect the course of a pandemic like COVID-19?
  Knowable Magazine, July 20, 2020
• Bundled Payments Tied to Reduced Spending With Less Skilled Nursing Utilization Medicare bundled payments for acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, COPD, and pneumonia are associated with reduced spending and less use of skilled nursing, a US study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, July 15, 2020
• Topical PDE-4 Inhibitor for Psoriasis Effective in Phase 2b Trial Topical roflumilast brought marked improvement in signs and symptoms of chronic plaque psoriasis in a phase 2b trial. "Roflumilast cream could really be a game changer," said a trial investigator.
  Medscape Medical News, July 14, 2020
• Even a Few Days of Steroids May Be Risky, New Study Suggests Clinicians often prescribe a short course of oral steroids for self-limiting conditions, but a growing body of data suggests such treatments are tied to severe adverse events.
  Medscape Medical News, July 08, 2020
• Radiomics Can Identify High-Risk Early Stage Lung Cancer Radiomics can improve lung cancer screening by identifying patients with early stage lung cancer at high risk for poorer outcomes who could benefit from aggressive therapy.
  Medscape Medical News, July 07, 2020
• Stem Cell Strategies Get Compassionate Use in COVID-19 Mesenchymal stem cells are being reimagined to tackle COVID-19-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome.
  Medscape Medical News, July 06, 2020
• ASCO 2020Treatments Linked to Death in COVID Patients With Thoracic Cancers Past treatment may affect the risk of death among patients with thoracic malignancies who develop COVID-19, according to data from the TERAVOLT registry.
  Medscape Medical News, June 29, 2020
• Nocturnal Oxygen Therapy Reduces Hypoxemia, Apnea in COPD Patients at Altitude COPD patients who traveled to high altitudes from low-altitude homes experienced reduced hypoxemia and sleep apnea when they were treated with nocturnal oxygen therapy, a randomized, placebo-controlled crossover trial found.
  Reuters Health Information, June 26, 2020
• COVID-19 Update: Fauci Testifies, Cases Hit New Records These are the coronavirus stories you need to know about today.
  Medscape Medical News, June 23, 2020
• 'Collateral Damage': COVID-19 Threatens Patients With COPD There is concern that the COVID-19 pandemic may be inflicting collateral damage on vulnerable patients with chronic conditions, in particular, those with COPD.
  Medscape Medical News, June 23, 2020
• Noninvasive Ventilation May Beat Standard Oxygen for AHRF: Study Patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure were less likely to die or to need a ventilator if they received helmet or face mask noninvasive ventilation rather than standard oxygen therapy.
  Medscape Medical News, June 12, 2020
• By the Numbers: Asthma-COPD Overlap Deaths A value over 1.0 indicates that there were more deaths associated with the condition than expected.
  Medscape Medical News, June 10, 2020
• Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways.
  ProPublica, June 09, 2020
• Dysanapsis Linked to COPD in Older Adults Dysanapsis, a mismatch between airway-tree caliber and lung size, is associated with an increased risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in older adults, according to a retrospective study.
  Reuters Health Information, June 09, 2020
• How Many People Avoided EDs Early in the Pandemic? During a 4-week period early in the COVID-19 pandemic, visits to U.S. emergency departments were down by 42%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  Medscape Medical News, June 04, 2020
• HRS 2020Leadless Pacemaker Shown Safe in Older, Sicker Patients A large cohort receiving Micra leadless pacemakers had low complication rates compared with those receiving conventional transvenous pacemakers, a study of Medicare patients showed.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2020
• States Vary in Vulnerability to COVID-19 Impact West Virginia's large elderly population and high rates of chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and COPD make it the most vulnerable state to the coronavirus, according to a new analysis.
  Medscape Medical News, May 13, 2020
• New Angiotensin Studies in COVID-19 Give More Reassurance A deluge of new data does not suggest harm with ACE inhibitors and angiotensin blockers in COVID-19 rates or outcomes but suggests possible differential effects of the two drug classes.
  Medscape Medical News, May 05, 2020
• COVID-19 Panel: Helmet CPAP, Pronation Key for Some Patients Noninvasive ventilation with helmet continuous positive air pressure (CPAP) is effective for preventing self-induced lung injury, according to European physicians.
  Medscape Medical News, April 23, 2020