Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine

Articles Available on Medscape

• An Update on Pharmacologic Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
  What's new in drug treatments for COPD? Find out the most recent developments in pharmacologic management of this disease.

  April 22, 2016

• Update on Immunotherapy for the Treatment of Asthma
  What does the latest research tell us about the use of allergen immunotherapy for asthma?

  March 22, 2016

• Pathogenesis and Prevention Strategies of Severe Asthma Exacerbations in Children
  Learn more about the mechanisms involved in severe exacerbations of asthma in children -- and find out the best ways to prevent them.

  February 22, 2016

• Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease and Sleep: A Review
  Learn more about the effects of sleep deprivation on the immune system and how it links to autoimmune diseases.

  January 22, 2016

• Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and Lung Cancer
  Get up-to-date on the ties that bind these two lethal diseases.

  December 22, 2015

• Practical Considerations in the Pharmacologic Treatment of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
  What questions remain about the recently approved medications for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis -- pirfenidone and nintedanib.

  November 23, 2015

• Personalized Medicine in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
  Find out how major advances in our understanding of disease pathobiology and improvements in molecular techniques have changed treatment.

  October 22, 2015

• Malignant Tracheal Tumors: A Review of Current Diagnostic and Management Strategies
  Learn more about currently available diagnostic and treatment modalities for malignant tracheal tumors.

  September 22, 2015

• Outpatient Thoracoscopy: Safety and Practical Considerations
  Does evidence support the routine practice of medical thoracoscopy on an outpatient basis?

  August 21, 2015

• Improving Outcomes From Community-acquired Pneumonia
  Find out what the best practice bundles include --for patients with community-acquired pneumonia.

  July 22, 2015

• Ventilator-associated Infection: The Role for Inhaled Antibiotics
  What's the rationale for inhaled antibiotic therapy?

  June 22, 2015

• Managing Severe Asthma in Adults: Lessons From the ERS/ATS Guidelines
  Get an updated definition of severe asthma along with the evaluation steps necessary to reach a diagnosis of severe asthma.

  May 22, 2015

• Allergic Fungal Airway Disease: Pathophysiologic and Diagnostic Considerations
  Which biomarkers are useful in helping to guide diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of allergic fungal airway disease?

  April 23, 2015

• Chronic Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis: Important Considerations in the Work-up of This Fibrotic Lung Disease
  Find out about recent data regarding the importance and difficulty of determining causative exposures both for accurate diagnosis and prognosis of hypersensitivity pneumonitis.

  March 23, 2015

• Chronic Respiratory Diseases: Challenges in Diagnosis and Prevention
  Get up-to-speed with the latest on accurately diagnosing COPD, bronchitis, and bronchiolitis.

  February 23, 2015

• Dry Powder Inhalers in Cystic Fibrosis
  Dry powder inhalers may improve patient adherence, but are they as clinically effective, safe and cost-effective as nebulized antibiotics?

  November 28, 2014

• The Impact of Sleep and Hypoxia on the Brain
  Get in-the-know about obstructive sleep apnea-induced brain injury.

  October 29, 2014

• Cytotoxic Agents in Sarcoidosis: Which One Should We Choose?
  Therapeutic management of Sarcoidosis is challenging due to the variations in disease manifestation and clinical course.

  September 29, 2014

• Pulmonary Hypertension Associated With Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
  Learn more about how severe pulmonary hypertension worsens the prognosis of patients with COPD or idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

  August 28, 2014

• Rigid Thoracoscopy or Flexi-rigid Pleuroscopy?
  Flexi-rigid pleuroscopes are now widely available as an alternative to conventional rigid thoracoscopes. Which is the better instrument?

  July 28, 2014