An afternoon dose also yielded significantly better overnight (10 p.m. to 4 a.m.) suppression in blood eosinophil counts as a ...

Continuing our series, Dr Andrew Whittamore debunks some common myths about asthma – and explains some less well-known facts ...

[1] All of these pathophysiologic features are largely represented in asthma, and therefore, anticholinergic drugs have been considered ... Forced vital capacity; ICS: Inhaled corticosteroids ...

The effect of early intervention and the recommended methods for intervention in infants and young children will not be well represented for the next 5 years. The reason for this is that large ...

Novartis says that around a third of patients with asthma have symptoms that can’t be controlled using LABA/ICS dual therapy such as GSK’s older drug Seretide – which dominated the market ...

More than 50% of patients with severe asthma have high eosinophil levels, making them candidates for biologic therapies like Nucala and other drugs like ... corticosteroids (ICS), plus at least ...

Long-term ICS use in COPD increases risks of severe health conditions like Type 2 diabetes and fractures. Read more!

2 Asthma control is achieved, in most, by taking inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) containing medication regularly using an effective inhaler technique. Anything that can be done to improve the efficacy of ...