Allergy/Asthma News

Adults with asthma and obesity who participated in a short-term, high-intensity pulmonary rehabilitation program experienced sustained improvements in asthma outcomes, according to a study published in the European Respiratory Journal.

Mayo Clinic has been ranked the No. 1 hospital nationwide by U.S. News and World Report, the fifth consecutive year that the hospital in Rochester, Minn., has received the top spot on the publication’s Best Hospitals Honor Roll list.

Asthma prevalence estimates were 10 percentage points higher among children with a developmental disability or delay than among children without one, according to a study in JAMA Network Open.

Adolescent circadian preference may be associated with the development of asthma and allergies, according to data published in ERJ Open Research.

Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 and transmembrane protease serine 2 mediate SARS-COV-2 entry into host cells. Higher expression of ACE2 and TMPRSS2 in sputum cells of patients with asthma identified subgroups at risk of COVID-19 morbidity.

Hospitalized patients who had a documented penicillin allergy had higher odds of receiving “inferior” antibiotics — some that could potentially cause adverse drug events, data published in JAMA Internal Medicine show.

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed considerable challenges to primary care in the United States, highlighting shortages in workforce and resources that existed long before the pandemic.

Patients with asthma were not more likely to be hospitalized due to COVID-19 compared with patients without asthma, according to new data published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Continued mepolizumab treatment yielded sustained clinical benefit in most patients with severe eosinophilic asthma, according to data scheduled for presentation at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

Adults working in certain industries and occupations, and those currently not working, have higher risk for asthma-COPD overlap mortality, according to new data published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.