COPD News

• ATS 2022 Race-Based Spirometry May Lead to Missed Diagnoses Adjusting for purported racial differences may lead to underdiagnosis and undertreatment of Black patients.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Tuberculosis: The Disease That Changed World History Scientific discoveries have greatly improved the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of TB. Yet efforts to eradicate the disease appear to have taken a step backward.
  Medscape Medical News, 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
• ATS 2022 ATS 2022: Restoration in the Aftermath of COVID-19 Lessons learned from the pandemic will be a central theme of this year's meeting, held live for the first time since 2019.
  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
• Total Resection for Glioblastoma Predicts Longer Survival Most notably, the team found that frailty had no effect on surgical outcomes. The study was published as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed.
  First Look, April 27, 2022
• Risk Calculator May Help Predict Death After COPD Hospitalization A risk calculator achieved 80% accuracy in predicting death after hospital discharge in patients with chronic occlusive pulmonary disease.
  Medscape Medical News, April 22, 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
• Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lung Disease Challenging to Treat NTM is most commonly found in Florida, California, Hawaii, and the Gulf Coast states, and its incidence appears to be increasing.
  Medscape Medical News, April 12, 2022
• Black Men at Higher Risk for Mortality From Sleep Apnea Sleep apnea–related mortality rates have flattened for most groups over the past 10 years except among Black men.
  Medscape Medical News, March 25, 2022
• AAGP 2022 New Data Focus Need for Tailored Schizophrenia Care in Elderly Older adults with schizophrenia are not a homogenous patient population with various sub-groups that differ significantly in terms of comorbid illness, mortality rates and causes.
  Medscape Medical News, March 25, 2022
• Unaffiliated Telehealth Doctors May Prescribe More Antibiotics During telehealth visits for acute respiratory infection, third-party acute-care doctors prescribed antibiotics more than twice as often as system-employed doctors, researchers report.
  Medscape Medical News, March 21, 2022
• Spirituality and Medicine: A Surprising Pairing If research affirms what people of faith have long believed about the connectedness of their body and spirit, physicians might consider getting on board.
  Medscape Medical News, March 21, 2022
• Pollution Levels Linked to Physical and Mental Health Problems "Environmental air pollution is a major risk to health and 99% of the population worldwide is living in places where recommendations for air quality are not met."
  Medscape Medical News, March 17, 2022
• Alert FDA Approves Generic Symbicort for Asthma, COPD The approval is for the first generic of the most commonly prescribed complex drug-device combination products to treat asthma and COPD.
  FDA Approvals, March 16, 2022
• Mutation Drives Persistent Pseudomonas in COPD Gene mutations suggest adaptability and potential role for antibiotics in clinical practice.
  Medscape Medical News, March 10, 2022
• AAAAI 2022 Digital Monitors Can Boost Adherence, Outcomes in Asthma Patients with difficult-to-control asthma can relieve symptoms by boosting medication adherence with digital monitors, but physician feedback is key.
  Medscape Medical News, March 08, 2022
• FDA, DEA Pushed to Make Gabapentin a Controlled Substance A consumer watchdog group has filed a petition with the FDA and DEA demanding regulation as a way to stop abuse and diversion of the anticonvulsant gabapentin.
  Medscape Medical News, March 07, 2022
• New Gene Signals for Asthma-COPD Overlap Identified Genome-wide association studies of nearly 50,000 subjects identified eight distinct signals that could predispose patients to asthma-COPD overlap.
  Medscape Medical News, March 03, 2022