Moderate to Severe Asthma: News

• GSK's Experimental Drug Shows Promise in Reducing Severe Asthma Attacks GSK's experimental drug met its primary goal of reducing asthma attacks in a late-stage trial, marking a bright spot for a treatment that the British drugmaker expects to...
  Reuters Health Information, May 21, 2024
• Telehealth May Reduce Repeat Asthma ED Visits in Kids Children hospitalized with asthma appear to be good candidates for telehealth-based asthma control, a pilot study found.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2024
• Recommendations Guide Oral Immunotherapy for Food Allergies A consensus document emphasizes the control of comorbidities, contraindications to oral immunotherapy, and the importance of informed consent.
  Medscape Medical News, April 16, 2024
• What Are Platanus Cough and Thunderstorm Asthma? Clinicians should learn to recognize and manage two conditions that climate change is making more common.
  Medscape Medical News, April 15, 2024
• Alert FDA Expands Benralizumab Use for Asthma to Kids Over Age 6 The maintenance treatment for severe asthma with an eosinophilic phenotype originally was approved for patients aged 12 years and older.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2024
• Researchers Target Genetic Influence on Asthma and Allergy Indiana University lab received support from the National Institutes of Health to expand research on allergy risk factors.
  Medscape Medical News, January 12, 2024
• Parental Stress and Depression Linked to Childhood Asthma Data from a national sample of Australian children showed worse asthma symptoms in the presence of family hardships, maternal depression, and other stressors.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2023
• ACAAI 2023 Novel Toothpaste May Cut Peanut Allergy Risk for Adults A phase 1 randomized, controlled trial tested the safety of a toothpaste that was specially formulated to be used as oral immunotherapy by adults with peanut allergy.
  Medscape Medical News, November 13, 2023
• ACAAI 2023 Survey: 42% of PCPs Not Familiar With Biologics for Asthma Patients with asthma are regularly seen by primary care providers (PCPs), but a survey found that 82% of PCPs do not order labs, and 90% do not use absolute eosinophil counts to guide care.
  Medscape Medical News, November 10, 2023
• Phytoestrogens May Ease Late-onset Asthma in Older Women Phytoestrogens show potential as a treatment for menopausal women with late-onset asthma that may relieve symptoms of both conditions.
  MDedge News, November 06, 2023
• CHEST 2023 Biologics After Asthma Exacerbation Although the study was retrospective, it suggests that the threshold for initiating biologics could potentially be lowered for patients with uncontrolled asthma despite adequate use of inhalers.
  MDedge News, October 19, 2023
• AAO-HNSF 2023 Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Has No Impact on Comorbid Asthma Patients with both conditions showed no difference in asthma symptom severity or medication use before and after surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, October 04, 2023
• It’s Back to School for Asthma, Too A relaxed approach to maintenance therapy during the summer likely contributes to the surge in emergency department admissions for asthma that follows the reopening of schools.
  Medscape Medical News, September 15, 2023
• Mepolizumab Improves Asthma After 1 Y Despite Comorbidities To assess the impact of mepolizumab on patients with comorbidities, the researchers conducted a post hoc analysis of 822 adults with severe asthma.
  MDedge News, September 01, 2023
• Wildfire Smoke Exposure: What to Know Ongoing wildfires in Canada pose a wide range of health risks for those exposed to the smoke.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2023
• After Norgestrel, Which Other Drugs Should Go OTC? Several more classes of drugs could come next in the shift from prescription to over-the-counter status.
  Medscape Medical News, July 21, 2023
• Asthma Severity, Exacerbations Increase With RV Infection Rhinovirus infection is associated with stimulating histamine-releasing factor (HRF) and HRF-reactive immunoglobulin E for increasing severity of asthma and exacerbations.
  Medscape Medical News, July 17, 2023
• New German Guidelines Change the Paradigm for Asthma The new emphasis is on anti-inflammatory therapy rather than inhalers.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2023
• Bronchial Thermoplasty Matches Biologics for Severe Asthma Adults with severe asthma showed similar improvements in symptoms and quality of life after treatment with BT as compared with biologics.
  Medscape Medical News, June 16, 2023
• Real-World Study Extends Benralizumab Asthma Benefit Benralizumab is a highly effective biologic for the management of severe eosinophil asthma.
  Medscape Medical News, June 07, 2023