Heliox (helium/oxygen mixture) might be superior to oxygen as a driving gas for aerosol delivery of ß-agonists in patients with acute asthma because its lower gas density results in decreased ...

Stephen Hughes receives research grant funding from the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care Medical Research Future Fund, The Australian Research Council and Asthma Australia.

Inhalers have been key to asthma management since the 1950s. The most common, salbutamol, comes in a familiar blue-colored inhaler (or "puffer"). This kind of "rescue inhaler" brings quick relief ...

“There were 25,500 hospitalizations where the principal diagnosis was asthma in 2020-21, costing an estimated AU$851.7 million (US$549 million) in healthcare expenditure.

The annualized rate of severe asthma exacerbations was lower with albuterol–budesonide than with albuterol (0.15 vs. 0.32; rate ratio, 0.47; 95% CI, 0.34 to 0.64), as was the mean annualized ...

HOLYOKE — Julio Rodriguez, 68, developed asthma about seven years ago. His medication helps and so do changes made last year to his apartment in the Flats neighborhood, where he’s lived for 24 ...

The combination of air pollution, dense urban development and limited green spaces increases the risk of asthma in both children and adults. This is shown by a new study conducted as part of a ...

Experts agreed asthma biologics can be used during conception, pregnancy and breastfeeding. Clinicians should discuss the risks/benefits of asthma biologics with pregnant patients before ...

As-needed use of a metered-dose inhaler with albuterol plus budesonide (Airsupra) lowered the risk of severe exacerbations compared with albuterol alone for people with normally mild asthma ...

Researchers randomly assigned 2,421 trial patients to use either this combination therapy or albuterol alone after asthma attacks and found that 5.1% of Airsupra users and 9.1% of albuterol-only ...

In October, AstraZeneca revealed that early results from a phase 3 trial of its dual-drug asthma inhaler Airsupra were so convincing that an independent committee decided to halt the study based ...

Asthma is a chronic condition that never completely goes away, but you can manage your symptoms and achieve remission. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an ...