Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are chronic respiratory (lung) diseases that cause breathing difficulty and coughing. Asthma affects about 28 million people in the United ...

An injection given during some asthma and COPD attacks is more effective than the current treatment of steroid tablets, reducing the need for further treatment by 30%. The findings, published today in ...

SAN DIEGO -- Identifying symptomatic individuals in the community with undiagnosed asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and then linking them with specialty care reduced healthcare ...

Among adults with undiagnosed respiratory symptoms, those with undiagnosed COPD and asthma vs. preserved ratio impaired or ...

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Current drug treatments have been incorporated into clinical practice guidelines, such as the NAEPP EPR-3 for asthma [101] and GOLD treatment guidelines for COPD, [102] both of which recognize the ...

David Mannino is co-founder and chief medical officer of the COPD Foundation. He's an internal medicine doctor with a specialty in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine at University of ...

NEW YORK, May 19 (UPI) --Finding and treating people with undiagnosed asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease improved their health and led to fewer appointments for respiratory symptoms in ...

Two posters presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting 2023 showed how real-world exacerbation rates in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) dropped after patients started using a single ...

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