Asthma and Respiratory Disorders News

Patients with asthma experienced higher FEV1 and lower blood eosinophil counts when they used a single dose of beclomethasone dipropionate in the afternoon compared with other dosing regimens, according to a study published in Thorax.

In pediatric patients, lower Child Opportunity Index scores at birth were linked to elevated incidence rates of asthma with recurrent exacerbations, according to data published in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

The number of Americans breathing unhealthy, polluted air where they lived between 2021 and 2023 totaled 156 million, which was a 25 million increase from last year’s State of the Air report, according to a press release.

As the federal government lays off workers at CDC and NIAID, shutters programs, cuts research grants, and considers changes in Medicaid and Medicare, asthma patients will experience worse outcomes, according to experts.

The likelihood for upper respiratory tract infections and wheeze in children was impacted by when the child was born in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to findings published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Editor’s Note: This is part one of a two-part Healio Exclusive series on nutrition and lung health. Part two can be viewed here.

Patients with small airways dysfunction experienced clinically and statistically significant improvements in peripheral resistance and compliance with tezepelumab, according to a study published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

SAN DIEGO — In 2024, administration of the four FDA-approved RSV vaccinations was low, ranging from 0.27% to 0.58%, according to a poster presented here.

SAN DIEGO — Black/African American mothers of children with asthma often reported financial instability/poverty, home/caretaker instability and neighborhood disorder or violence as daily life stressors, according to a presentation here.