asthma treatment

(MedPage Today) -- In the "real world" of asthma treatment, leukotriene-receptor agonists may be just as effective as the gold standard of inhaled glucocorticoids as both a first-line and add-on therapy, researchers said.

Mild asthma does not need to be treated every day, according to a study in the US.

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.

MIAMI BEACH (MedPage Today) -- A combination asthma treatment under development appears to cause few adverse side effects when compared with monotherapy with corticosteroids or long-acting beta2-agonists, researchers said here.

(University of Montreal) Expectant mothers who eschew asthma treatment during pregnancy heighten the risk transmitting the condition to their offspring, according to one of the largest studies of its kind published in the European Respiratory Journal.

A research team from the University of Montreal, the Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal and Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center found that 32.6 percent of children born to mothers who neglected to treat their asthma during pregnancy developed the respiratory illness themselves.