Asthma News

• Fewer Teens Giving Birth, but Cases Are More Complex Rates of obesity, mental health conditions, diabetes, and delivery complications have increased among teens giving birth.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• Adolescents With Food Allergies Share Common Concerns Adolescents with food allergies have allergy-related beliefs and concerns that involve five themes that may influence how they manage their condition, researchers report.
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• ATS 2022 NAVIGATOR Steers Uncontrolled Asthma Toward Calmer Seas The phase 3 trial showed high complete response rates and reduced disease burden with tezepelumab vs placebo.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• CARRA 2022 Pfizer COVID Vax Performs Well in Youth With Rheumatic Diseases Nearly all participants in the study showed complete seroconversion, in contrast to similar studies in adults.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2022
• Albuterol-Budesonide Combo Offers Better Rescue Therapy for Moderate to Severe Asthma Among patients with uncontrolled moderate to severe asthma, a fixed-dose combination of albuterol and budesonide gives better as-needed relief than albuterol alone, a large international study shows.
  Reuters Health Information, May 16, 2022
• Antibiotic Prescribing Practice Varies Widely in Canada Specific feedback for primary care clinicians could reduce the use of avoidable antibiotics and the potential for the emergence of antimicrobial resistance.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• COPD Screening for Asymptomatic Adults? USPSTF Weighs In, Again “In addition to potential treatment harms, there are opportunity costs to screening.”
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• Medical Education Programs Tell How Climate Change Affects Health Medical schools are educating the next generation of doctors on one of the most widespread, insidious health threats of our time.
  Medscape Medical News, May 10, 2022
• Military Deployment Tied to Increased COPD Risk In a study, 44% of deployed veterans were found to have been exposed to inorganic dust.
  Medscape Medical News, May 09, 2022
• COVID-19 Worsens Asthma in Children Asthma in children may worsen after an infection with the coronavirus, doctors warn.
  Reuters Health Information, May 04, 2022
• Long COVID a Serious Challenge for Older Patients, Physicians Experts fear 'second pandemic' of post-infection complications could be particularly hard on long-term care facilities.
  Medscape Medical News, April 27, 2022
• More Evidence Links Asthma Severity to Age of Onset A large, international database study provides further evidence that age of asthma onset influences exacerbations and comorbidities.
  Medscape Medical News, April 27, 2022
• Needle-Free Epinephrine Options Are on the Horizon People with prescriptions for the lifesaving medication often don't carry their auto-injectors, and many hesitate to use them.
  WebMD Health News, April 26, 2022
• Cheap, Older Drugs That May Treat COVID Never Get Out of the Lab
  Kaiser Health News, April 19, 2022
• Better Ventilation Prevents COVID Spread. Are Companies Aware? The research is clear that improving indoor air quality is an essential tool in stemming the spread of covid and a host of other diseases. But companies have to be willing to invest.
  Kaiser Health News, April 19, 2022
• Probiotic LGG Doesn't Lessen Eczema, Asthma, or Rhinitis Risk The researchers said they cannot support its use in this population of children at high risk for allergic disease.
  Medscape Medical News, April 18, 2022
• Psychiatric Illness Associated With Eosinophilic Esophagitis Among patients with eosinophilic esophagitis, there is a high prevalence of psychiatric illnesses, according to a new study.
  Medscape Medical News, April 18, 2022
• Sex Differences in COPD Slow to Be Recognized, Treated Men and women patients with COPD require different management.
  Medscape Medical News, April 14, 2022
• Children With RMDs Not at High Risk for Severe COVID-19 A study of children and young people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases and COVID-19 showed that the majority had mild symptoms and that the hospitalization rate was low.
  Medscape Medical News, April 13, 2022
• COVID-19 Cardiovascular Complications in Children: AHA Statement The statement details what has been learned about how to treat, manage, and prevent cardiovascular complications associated with COVID-19 in children and young adults.
  Medscape Medical News, April 12, 2022