Asthma News

• Is It Asthma or COPD? What PCPs Need to Know How can you avoid diagnostic errors in COPD and Asthma? We asked the experts.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2025
• Treat or Refer? Pulmonologists Share Best Practices Pulmonologists share best practices on when primary care providers should consider sending patients with respiratory illnesses to a specialist.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2025
• Fed Cuts Leave Pulmonology Community Gasping for Resources Associations and clinicians cite impact on programs, including smoking cessation and asthma management.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2025
• Obesity ‘Strongly’ Linked to 16 Cardiometabolic Diseases The prevalence of metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease, chronic kidney disease, and obstructive sleep apnea, among others, increases with increasing BMI.
  Medscape Medical News, April 02, 2025
• The Challenges of Chronic Cough Experts share tips for diagnosis and management.
  Medscape Medical News, April 02, 2025
• Swedish Study Finds Link Between Asthma and Diabetes A study involving more than 5.2 million adults in Sweden finds a link between asthma and type 2 diabetes that persists even after accounting for BMI.
  Medscape News UK, March 27, 2025
• Reducing Dust Mites May Have Little Effect on Allergies Methods for reducing house dust mites have limited clinical benefits despite lowering allergen exposure, a meta-analysis shows.
  Medscape Medical News, March 26, 2025
• Top Chronic Diseases Every Med Student Should Know By the time you graduate medical school, you should have a handle on these chronic diseases, as you’ll likely encounter them at some point in your career.
  Medscape Medical News, March 25, 2025
• European Regulators to Review GSK's Asthma Drug Nucala to Treat COPD The European Medicines Agency will review GSK's request to approve its asthma drug Nucala as an additional treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with an...
  Reuters Health Information, March 24, 2025
• Prenatal Flavonoids Linked to Lower Child Respiratory Risk A higher intake of dietary flavonoids during pregnancy may have a beneficial effect on child wheezing and asthma in later life, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, March 21, 2025
• GERD: Navigating a Diagnostic Dilemma GERD is one of the most common GI conditions, but its presentation can be confusing because many of its symptoms overlap with other conditions.
  Medscape Medical News, March 18, 2025
• Dupilumab Boosts Asthma Control and Lung Function In a phase 4 trial, dupilumab effectively reduces airway inflammation and mucus plugging, improving lung function and asthma control in patients with moderate to severe type 2 asthma.
  Medscape Medical News, March 18, 2025
• Alert FDA Approves First Biosimilar to Omalizumab Omlyclo treats allergic asthma, chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps, chronic unexplained hives, and food allergies.
  Medscape Medical News, March 13, 2025
• AAAAI 2025 Skin Monitoring Method May Make Food Allergy Tests Safer Skin monitoring could help detect allergic reactions earlier, reducing severe cases during food challenges.
  Medscape Medical News, March 12, 2025
• AAAAI 2025 Race-Based Spirometry Stymies Asthma Diagnosis in Kids Harms of race-specific lung function calculations extend to asthma and treatment, particularly in Black children.
  Medscape Medical News, March 10, 2025
• AAAAI 2025 Stock Inhalers Save ER Trips, Keep Students in School By providing quick relief to individuals experiencing asthma symptoms at schools, stock inhalers prevent emergency room visits and reduce healthcare costs.
  Medscape Medical News, March 10, 2025
• AAAAI 2025 Tezepelumab Eases Chronic Rhinosinusitis With Nasal Polyps The asthma medication reduces congestion in patients with severe, uncontrolled chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps in a phase 3 trial.
  Medscape Medical News, March 10, 2025
• AAAAI 2025 Studies Clarify Antibiotics’ Role in Asthma Risk Treating babies with antibiotics produce short-term microbiome changes that raise their risk for childhood asthma.
  Medscape Medical News, March 07, 2025
• AAAAI 2025 Obesity in Asthma: Care Plan Should Include Weight Loss Obesity worsens asthma severity and responses to medication, yet most doctors fail to address weight management with these patients.
  Medscape Medical News, March 04, 2025
• RSV Triggers Autoimmune Haemolytic Anaemia in Young Woman A young woman’s repeated loss of consciousness is traced to severe anaemia caused by warm autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, a rare complication of respiratory syncytial virus.
  Medscape News UK, February 25, 2025