Credit: Getty Images. Tiotropium, when added to standard asthma maintenance therapy, was found to improve lung function in adult patients with symptomatic asthma regardless of GINA asthma severity. An ...

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Decision Resources, one of the world’s leading research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that Merck’s Singulair ...

Adherence to daily maintenance therapy with inhaled glucocorticoids is notoriously poor among asthma patients with mild disease, with as many as four out of five failing to use the medications as ...

Older adults with coexisting asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), known as asthma-COPD overlap, who take fixed-dose combinations of inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting β ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . 42.6% of patients filled a SABA prescription 30 days before an exacerbation, and 61.4% did so within 30 days ...

An asthma risk score using 7 clinically relevant parameters evaluated in a pediatric Medicaid managed care population can stratify risk for following-year asthma hospitalization. Objectives: ...

The management of asthma has changed since the introduction of budesonide/formoterol (Symbicort ®) as both maintenance and reliever therapy (SMART). SMART and its effects on bronchial ...

flutiform is the first pressurised metered-dose inhaler to combine the ICS, fluticasone propionate, with the fast-acting inhaled LABA, formoterol. 2 flutiform is licensed for asthma maintenance ...

May 27, 2011 (Denver, Colorado) — An asthma management strategy based on levels of fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FENO) shows efficacy in reducing severe asthma exacerbations by as much as 50% among ...

AIIMS Jodhpur study finds 40% of spacers carry bacteria. Cloth drying increases risk, highlighting a lack of national hygiene guidelines. Experts urge air drying and standardized safety protocols.