Pulmonology

Bronchofilators may be they way to go for assessing current clinical asthma control.

Doctors need to conduct clinical trials and define the disease.

Neomi Shah, MD, MPH, studied patients with sleep apnea to uncover its effect on arterial inflammation.

Valerie Page, MB, BCh, FRCA, recounts a study of simvastatin on delirium patients.

Researchers sought to develop a method of identifying disease risk for asthma across via genetic markers.

Data determined an increased need for asthma education at home for low-income and minority families of children with asthma.

Drug meets all primary and secondary end points in phase III study.

Benralizumab led to a 75% reduction in the use of oral corticosteroids for severe asthma.

PBI-4050 slowed or stopped declines in lung function in patients with IPF.

Asthma patients woke up less often and improved faster with FF/VI

LAIV was associated with a decreased risk of asthma exacerbation.

Ambulatory oxygen improved symptoms, performance, and recovery time in fibrotic ILDs.

MK-7264 reduced cough frequency by 37% for patients with chronic cough.

Older patients and sick patients are at increased risk.

Severity and survival outcomes improve with increased admittance.

Many patients with COPD have had exposure to tobacco smoke or environmental irritants that caused the COPD, or have genetic COPD, meaning, the patients affected would likely be adults.

Peters gave a primer on peanuts and more at Pri-Med West.

Wheezing from RV in the first 3 years of life leads to higher risk of asthma.

Researchers investigate school environment and exposure to microbes, fungi.

A UK study aims to tackle poorly controlled asthma and misdiagnoses

Researchers explore new ways to forecast thunderstorm-related asthma

CHASE 3 data support FDA approval of Symbicort in children 6 to >12 years.

ICS use associated with 83% increase in rate of pneumonia hospitalization

Maternal smoking may be more likely than birth age to cause asthma in kids.

The FDA contraindicated using LABA as monotherapy in adults with asthma.

Children, infants who receive the opioids can suffer respiratory depression, death.

Newfound association a step towards creating cytokine profiles for asthma phenotypes.

Reslizumab can improve lung functions in certain asthmatic patients.

Meredith McCormack, MD, MHS, talked about managing asthma and COPD in the primary care setting and when it’s time to refer a patient to a specialist at the American College of Physicians Internal Medicine Meeting (ACP 2017) in San Diego, California.