Pulmonology

Asthma responds differently to specific treatment regimens based on subtypes.

Omalizumab therapy reduces exacerbations in severe allergic asthma patients.

The use of the chest x-ray for diagnosing bacterial pneumonia and the role of antibiotics in infected patients have been hot topics in community-acquired pneumonia. Scott Flanders, MD, gave an update at the American College of Physicians Internal Medicine Meeting (ACP 2017) in San Diego, California.

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Reassessing asthma diagnoses in adults with asthma can help with overmedication.

Study found link between adult-onset asthma and exposure to cleaning products.

Many patients treated for severe asthma had not been properly assessed.

A new asthma study tested the clinical capabilities of Apple's ResearchKit.

RV/TCL ratios have a stronger association with longer duration asthma.

Genetics might not impact the efficacy of inhaled corticosteroid use in asthma.

Vitamin E deficiency in mothers can affect their children's risk of asthma.

Jay Jin, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic, shared the results from his team's case series surrounding unexpected bradycardia effect from epinephrine administration.

Mark S. Forshag, MD, MHA, with GSK, shared some of his team's next steps in advancing asthma care specifically with trying to keep things simple for the patients and their physicians.

Mark S. Forshag, MD, MHA, GSK, spoke with MD Magazine at AAAAI 2017 in Atlanta, GA, about the importance of eosinophils in treating severe asthma.

A chlamydia vaccine would cut infection rates, but cost millions.

The SQ HDM SLIT-tablet is already approved in Europe. Is the US next?

The study was conducted in patients with grass pollen-induced allergic rhinoconjunctivitis.

Would carrying a rescue inhaler correlate with better asthma control? That's what Sima J. Patel, DO and her team sought to investigate.

Trial results on novel multi-dose powder inhaler were revealed at AAAAI 2017.

In an ideal world, interventions would have a pilot study before RCT.

Which recommendations decrease asthma morbidity in children with asthma?

Matthew Perzanowski, PhD, discusses allergic asthma environmental factors.

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Relationship persists between dysfunctional breathing and poor asthma.

People who have trouble sleeping are likely to develop asthma.

Patients with severe allergic asthma should try omalizumab therapy.

Genetic biomarkers can be linked to severity and development of asthma.

Traffic-related air pollution could impact childhood asthma prevalence.

The expanded indication was granted under the FDA's priority review program.

Killing cockroaches from infested homes reduced asthma morbidity.