Asthma care reminders for clinicians improve patients’ use of preventive medication and reduce caregiver’s concerns about these medications, according to a new study. The findings will be presented at ...

The safe and appropriate use of long-acting beta-agonists (LABAs) for the treatment of asthma has been widely debated. In two large clinical trials, investigators found a potential risk of serious ...

The delivery of optimal care to individuals with bronchial asthma remains a challenge to practicing physicians. Asthma is a chronic, inflammatory condition that requires diligent long-term follow-up.

Scotland has the highest level of asthma in the world, according to a report by the Global Initiative for Asthma (Gina) published today. The report, released to coincide with World Asthma Day, ...

Among patients with severe asthma with low eosinophils untreated with biologics, there is a high burden of disease among those who have suboptimal disease control. Objectives: To quantify the clinical ...

We have examined a middle-age Medicaid population with the diagnosis of asthma, COPD, or concurrent asthma and COPD, and found that patients with co-occurring disease constitute comparable proportions ...

A 40-year-old woman comes to the family practice clinic for a routine annual visit. She reports a 6-month history of progressively severe episodic shortness of breath, cough, wheeze and chest ...

The evolutionarily conserved 18-glycosyl-hydrolase family contains true chitinases and chitinase-like proteins that lack enzymatic activity. Acidic mammalian chitinase has recently been associated ...