This COVID-19 roundup includes coverage of the FDA’s simpler vaccination schedule and authorization of new treatment, decline in pediatric asthma diagnoses during pandemic, and a new treatment combination...
Researchers determined the risk of death and health care costs in patients with COPD who undergo surgery compared with patients without COPD who undergo surgery.
Following a multicenter study, the FDA approved the combination of albuterol and budesonide—an inhaled corticosteroid—for the treatment of asthma in adults.
Researchers aimed to investigate the possibility of differentiating between eosinophil subsets in the induced sputum of patients with allergic asthma and to ascertain the distribution of these subsets in...
In most cases, chronic cough represents a symptom of common respiratory and nonrespiratory diseases. This article summarizes a presentation on the diagnosis and management of chronic cough by John Russell,...
Researchers aimed to determine whether a symptom-based screening tool could accurately identify children who may be at a high risk of asthma to reduce the burden of disease in this patient population. ...
In this commentary, Michael J. Bloch, MD, writes about smoking as a risk factor for coronary heart disease and stroke, the need for clinicians to devote time and resources to smoking cessation interventions...
