COPD

The US Food and Drug Administration has announced a comprehensive ban on flavored, pod-based e-cigarette cartridges earlier this week.

A re-prioritization of disease monitoring and screening could help physicians better understand how one of the greatest killers in the US could be combated.

An assessment of metoprolol in older patients with COPD had to be discontinued after treated patients reported a greater rate of hospitalization due to exacerbations.

A new cohort analysis shows hospitalized smokers are not at complication risk due to the perioperative therapy.

An analysis of mepolizumab use shows fewer than 1% of prescribed patients are likely to use biologics concomitantly.

A new study presented at CHEST 2019 shows pulmonologists and ILD specialists will either reduce or temporarily interrupt antifibrotic care, depending on the form of adverse events a patient is experiencing.

A new study shows that bronchoscopy practice, procedure, and tools vary by facility, and in assessment duration.

A study comparing the LAMA/LABA to monotherapy found patients without prior ICS treatment benefitted significantly, regardless of disease severity or symptoms.

A comparative cohort found inpatient and outpatient costs, both for respiratory and all-cause conditions, were less per month for patients on the antifibrotic.

New findings from the phase 3 trial show budesonide/ glycopyrrolate/ formoterol fumarate significantly reduces exacerbations among patients with no exacerbation history, compared to dual therapies.

From medical marijuana to vape devices, there seems to be a divide in defining what's legal for use, and what's actually beneficial for users.

How the LAMA therapy manages one of the integral facets of COPD care.

While one disease is benefitting from advancing digital screening measures, the other has a standard therapy which could provide benefit to both.

A new study finds the months of January-March are most burdened with COPD exacerbation-based hospitalizations, mortality, and hospital costs.

How should physicians navigate the public belief that vaping is less harmful than cigarette smoking?

A new study shows the underutilized test could reveal an additional 9% of asthma diagnoses and potentially 8% of asthma-COPD overlap syndrome cases.

How the aclidinium bromide trial brings novel perspective to COPD care.

The chronic respiratory disease is often under-diagnosed in female patients.

New ASCENT-COPD data show the therapy's benefit in reducing cardiovascular events among high-risk patients, along with significant exacerbation reduction.

The fixed-dose therapy was shown to reduce exacerbations, regardless of patient history, among those with increased cardiovascular risk.

What the introduction of aclidinium/formoterol could mean for patients with COPD.

The approved label update now indicates the therapy delays disease progression when used in combination with an approved oral background PAH therapy.

The most recent CDC data, presented at CHEST 2019, show nearly 1500 patients have reported an associated lung injury, and 33 have died.

A new study shows adult e-cigarette use in the US was steadily dropping since 2014— before spiking in 2018 among adults aged 18-24 years.

Trelegy Ellipta could become the first triple-combination, single-inhaler therapy approved for the treatment of both asthma and COPD.