Asthma News

Since 2004, students with asthma have had the right to self-carry and self-administer their quick-relief albuterol inhaler while at school. But what happens if the inhaler is left at home or lost during the school day?

Digital biomarkers derived from portable spirometers and smartwatches show promise as candidate endpoints for use in clinical trials or clinical care of pediatric asthma and cystic fibrosis, researchers reported.

With $31 million in funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, researchers will investigate the effectiveness of inhaled corticosteroids and azithromycin, used either alone or together, in treating asthma.

Birth by cesarean section was associated with an increase in risk for childhood asthma, researchers reported in European Respiratory Journal.

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Tailored metered-dose inhaler education was more effective compared with brief intervention for improving asthma patients’ inhaler techniques, but those with low health literacy may benefit less, researchers reported in Respiratory Medicine.

Infants exposed to acid suppressant medications did not experience an increased risk for allergen sensitization in early childhood, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Single-inhaler triple therapy with the extra-fine formulation of beclometasone, formoterol fumarate and glycopyrronium was cost-effective in adults with uncontrolled asthma, researchers reported in Respiratory Medicine.

Among patients with asthma, those with metabolically unhealthy obesity had significantly greater odds for visiting an ED for asthma symptoms in the previous year than patients with metabolically healthy obesity, according to a study.

The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, was ranked No. 1 on U.S. News & World Report’s list of Best Hospitals for pulmonology and lung surgery.