Asthma

Technology and trends in practice management will impact the way clinicians provide allergy and asthma care in the very near future, Gailen D. Marshall Jr., MD, PhD, FACP, FACAAI, told Healio.

As asthma and allergic diseases grow in prevalence, clinical practice must adapt to meet these changes. Physician assistants are helping to meet the growing patient demand by working collaboratively with their physician colleagues.

Healio compiled the most-read news in allergy, asthma and immunology posted in October.

More than 200 health journals simultaneously published an editorial calling on the United Nations, political leaders and health professionals to recognize how climate change and biodiversity are a single global health emergency.

Patients with asthma, COPD and interstitial lung disease have reduced SARS-CoV-2 vaccine-specific antibody, B-cell and T-cell responses, which signals poorer protection against COVID-19, according to results published in ERJ Open Research.

For the past 40 years, Gailen D. Marshall Jr., MD, PhD, FACP, FACAAI, has lived a hybrid kind of life bridging academia and clinical practice.

A cytotoxic CD4+ tissue-resident memory T-cell subset may be critical in driving airway inflammation and remodeling among men with severe asthma, according to a study published in Med.

Telehealth and in-person appointments for asthma led to similar outcomes, according to a study published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

Patients who use cannabis and experience acute asthma attacks had greater risks for mortality and mechanical ventilation, researchers reported.

HONOLULU — Cladosporium was more abundant in the lungs of patients with poor asthma control compared with patients who had better control, according to a poster presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.