Caitlyn Fitzpatrick

With the right maintenance treatment, patients with severe and very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can safely be weaned off inhaled corticosteroids (ICS).

Whether it's food or environment-related, there are all different types of allergies. The latest developments in pediatric allergy research highlights peanut allergy, skin prick test measures, and tobacco-induced allergy.

Atopic dermatitis, sometimes referred to as baby eczema, affects more than three million infants in the United States every year. While there are no established preventive measures, researchers have been making strides in coming up with effective treatment strategies.

A presentation at the 2015 ACAAI Annual Meeting reviewed several key developments in the world of asthma that were published within the past year. The four main takeaways touched on the inhalant SB010, severe refractory asthma, medication during pregnancy, and the use of tiotropium.

If one child is allergic to a specific food, then their brother or sister is probably going to have the intolerance as well, right? Not necessarily.

Why are so many children with asthma making trips to the emergency room (ER)? It could be due, at least in part, to what kind of physician is treating their condition to begin with.

Pharmacy shelves are lined with different brands to treat seasonal allergies, and most of the time, patients will pick one up. But as a new study found, allergy sufferers actually want prescription medication.

A penicillin allergy should be determined with a test, but far too often are patients wrongly told that a reaction to the drug means that they are allergic to it.

Breastfeeding has been linked to various benefits, including lower odds of childhood leukemia and reduced multiple sclerosis relapse risk in mothers. Unfortunately, reducing the risk of the baby developing allergies does not make the list.

Patients who could benefit from aspirin may be (wrongly) told that they are allergic because they had a reaction to the drug.

The first final guidance in over 13 years for the development of new antiretroviral drugs for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has been released by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Somnambulism, commonly known as sleepwalking, is a disorder that affects 8.4 million adults in the United States (one of which is Friends actress Jennifer Aniston). But as it turns out, these individuals do not feel pain from an injury they acquired during an episode while they are actually sleepwalking.

Vaccination is a hot topic of controversy, to say the very least. But if patients refuse to get vaccinated against preventable diseases such as measles and mumps, some doctors will go as far as to dismiss the families from their practices.

Women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at a substantially higher risk of mortality – especially those with cardiovascular and respiratory conditions.

Spontaneous knee effusion, often referred to as ‘water on the knee,' is definitely a red flag. However, a new study warns that a swollen knee accompanied by pain could be an early symptom of potentially debilitating Lyme disease.

The much buzzed about Evaluation of Lixisenatide in Acute Coronary Syndrome (ELIXA) trial has been tracking the medication in patients with type 2 diabetes. An update on the outcomes was provided at the 10th Annual Cardiometabolic Health Congress (CMHC 2015) in Boston, Massachusetts.

Ventilators are life-saving breathing devices that are essential in some situations; but ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP)? It's fair to say that we would all happily do without.

Technology may have a hand in promoting disease, but it's also the thing that helps prevent, stop, and treat it.

Ventilators that help patients breathe can be life-saving devices; however, they also have the power to cause deadly ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).

What do silicone buttock injections have to do with lung tissue inflammation? You might not believe it if it wasn't documented.

Even doctors aren't safe from landing in their own office.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) accounts for eight million doctor visits each year in the United States alone, and a new analysis took a deeper look into adding multiple therapies to improve symptoms of the lung disease.

It's already well-known that greater activity translates to lower levels of mortality when it comes to chronic respiratory conditions. The latest data indicates that the Non-invasive Open Ventilation (NIOV) device be able to increase physical activity.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can majorly limit physical activity and impair quality of life. A system believed to predict activity level proved to not be helpful after all.

Some patients with asthma may find aerobic exercise to be especially challenging; however, that may be the very thing that they need in order to keep their condition under control.

Initiating a sensitive conversation in the intensive care unit (ICU) can be uncomfortable, but a new analysis shows that's exactly what patients want.

"A lot of us know that, essentially, if you don't rescue the patient from falling off a cliff, there's a negative patient outcome," Nathan Boyer, CPT (P), MC, from the Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas, began a presentation at the CHEST 2015 meeting in Montréal, Canada.

If post-bronchodilator spirometry is required for the diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), why doesn't every single primary care physician do it?

Millennials aren't the only ones using social media; professionals and the minds behind credible institutions have taken to the websites to spread their news and messages. A recent analysis that will be described at CHEST 2015 in Montréal, Canada found just how prominent Twitter discussions are at pulmonary conferences – including CHEST over the years.

When the Food and Drug Administration Amendment Act (FDAAA) went into effect in 2007, summaries from clinical trials were required to be posted to ClinicalTrials.gov. While demographics are required in data, race/ethnicity are not, and an alarming amount of pulmonary studies did not report the optional information.