asthma patients

(MedPage Today) -- Depressive symptoms along with unhealthy behaviors are common among individuals with asthma, a telephone survey conducted in Israel found.

(MedPage Today) -- Children with asthma had a five-fold greater risk of adverse events with long-acting beta-agonists compared with the general population of asthma patients, FDA investigators concluded from a meta-analysis.

(MedPage Today) -- Some asthma patients' poor response to inhaled corticosteroids may be due to a relatively common genetic variant, researchers found.

(MedPage Today) -- Asthma patients with poorly controlled symptoms on inhaled steroids had significant improvement in lung function during 12 weeks of treatment with an investigational interleukin-13 inhibitor, investigators reported.

(MedPage Today) -- The physical forces of airway constriction appear to induce airway remodeling in asthma patients independent of inflammation, researchers found.

(MedPage Today) -- Pediatric asthma patients are nearly twice as likely to be prescribed an unnecessary antibiotic, compared with other pediatric patients, during an office or emergency department visit, recent studies revealed.

(University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) Suresh Bhavnani, an associate professor of biomedical informatics in the Institute for Translational Sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, was recently honored for using advanced visual analytical methods to propose a new classification of asthma patients.

(American Thoracic Society) Changes that occur in the airways of asthma patients are in part caused by the naturally occurring protein interleukin-13 (IL-13) which stimulates invasion of airway cells called fibroblasts, according to a study conducted by researchers at Duke University.

The study is the latest effort by researchers to better understand the processes that are involved in airway remodeling that can cause breathing difficulties in patients with asthma.

PHOENIX (MedPage Today) -- Testing lung function in young asthma patients may help paint a better picture of how well their disease is controlled, a researcher said here.

Spiriva, a drug for severe lung disease, works at least as well as Advair for asthma patients who don't get relief from inhalers alone, an NIH-sponsored study finds.