In a “true pivot” in asthma care across the UK, new guidelines urge medics to offer inhalers that both relieve and prevent ...

Long-awaited joint UK guidelines for asthma have today been finalised, overhauling recommendations to GPs for diagnostics and ...

It recommends healthcare practitioners should offer a low-dose combination of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) and formoterol to be taken as needed for everyone aged 12 and over with newly diagnosed ...

A novel asthma burden score that incorporated asthma exacerbations and healthcare utilization better reflected disease ...

Certain chronic conditions that affect the lungs, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), can have ...

This finding could open doors to better treatments for severe asthma patients. Asthma is a long-term disease that causes inflammation in the airways, making it hard to breathe. It affects around ...

Switching to SMART was associated with reduced annual treatment costs vs ICS/LABA maintenance plus SABA reliever ($2906.92 vs $4462.02) and increased QALYs. Using single maintenance and reliever ...

Victims of former Harrod's boss Mohamed Al Fayed have shown courage to come forward, with the Metropolitan Police now saying ...

Australian researchers are about to embark on a new study to uncover what triggers “dangerous” thunderstorm asthma events and ...

Several single-dose studies comparing acute bronchodilation induced by ipratropium bromide with salbutamol have shown that salbutamol was more effective than ipratropium in asthma treatment.

For example, knowing that 40% of the children with atopic dermatitis will subsequently develop asthma, the Early Treatment of Atopic Child (ETAC) study was a randomized controlled trial of ...

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