News|Articles|December 1, 2025

Rewriting Airway Disease With Trait-Based Care: 2025’s Convergence of Asthma and COPD Management

Author(s)Gerard Criner, MD, Linda Rogers, MD, Andrew (Truong-An) Ho, MD

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Discover how precision medicine reshapes COPD treatment, focusing on inflammation and patient-specific traits for improved outcomes in airway diseases.

Over the past several years, pulmonology has been undergoing a profound transformation. What was once a field dominated by incremental adjustments to inhaled bronchodilators and corticosteroids is now moving toward a more individualized, precision-medicine model.