COPD News

• RSV Vaccines and Treatments Face Global Access Hurdles Vaccines and monoclonal antibodies are reducing RSV hospitalizations, but high costs and limited access in low-income countries hinder global epidemiology changes.
  Medscape Medical News, January 07, 2025
• More Biologics Breaking Through for COPD A recent approval and more products in the pipeline offer new treatment options.
  Medscape Medical News, December 10, 2024
• Key Topics in 2025 GOLD Report Include CVD Risk, Spirometry New sections and updates will inform clinical practice.
  Medscape Medical News, December 04, 2024
• Persistence and Shifts in Occupational Lung Diseases Despite regulations, lung screening is lacking for workers, those exposed to shrapnel, or those located near risky sites.
  Medscape Medical News, November 20, 2024
• New Approach to Avoid Health Risks From Wildfire Smoke For pulmonologists and their patients, increased rates of wildfire raise questions about how best to avoid wildfire smoke harms both now and in the future.
  Medscape Medical News, November 14, 2024
• Periodontitis Management: GPs Should Play a Role Periodontitis treatment, which has associations with diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory disorders, should be a collaborative effort.
  Medscape Medical News, November 14, 2024
• CHEST 2024 Older COPD Patients at Excess Risk for PE-Associated Death The rate of deaths from PE among patients aged 75-79 years was 44% higher than the expected rate.
  Medscape Medical News, October 21, 2024
• CHEST 2024 AF Burden Increases Around Time of COPD Hospitalizations In patients with COPD both with or without heart failure, AF episodes rise around the time patients are hospitalized for exacerbations, according to a study of medical device data.
  Medscape Medical News, October 17, 2024
• Advancing Gut-Lung Axis Research The connection between respiratory infections, chronic diseases like asthma, and the gut microbiome drives research toward more effective, targeted treatments for lung diseases.
  Medscape Medical News, October 15, 2024
• CHEST 2024 Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Suffer More Asthma, COPD Complex, nationwide analysis included both social and environmental factors and could inform local and national policy.
  Medscape Medical News, October 14, 2024
• CHEST 2024 Hospitalized COPD Patients With GERD Have Better Outcomes The surprise finding hints that anti–acid reflux therapy may provide benefit in COPD, possibly by reducing micro-aspirations, but the results are only tentative.
  Medscape Medical News, October 09, 2024
• Wildfire Smoke Deadlier Than Other Pollution Wildfire-related air pollution causes higher mortality rates than non-wildfire PM 2.5 in Europe. Experts debate if prescribed fires reduce the risk or contribute to air pollution.
  Medscape Medical News, October 04, 2024
• Alert FDA Approves Dupilumab as Add-On for COPD Injectable biologic was approved as adjuvant therapy to inhaled medications.
  Medscape Medical News, October 01, 2024
• Updates in European Nutritional Guidelines Reflect Advances New approaches to nutrition in dementia, cystic fibrosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were reviewed at a recent conference.
  Medscape Medical News, September 25, 2024
• Loneliness/Disease Link Debatable? Rather than a causal risk factor for diseases such as stroke, dementia, CVD, and psychiatric illness, loneliness may be a surrogate marker of disease, new research suggested.
  Medscape Medical News, September 24, 2024
• ECTRIMS 2024 Comorbidity Control Might Slow MS Activity The strong association in this meta-analysis, presented at the 2024 ECTRIMS annual meeting, were drawn from 15 multicenter phase 3 treatment trials with 16,794 participants.
  MDedge News, September 23, 2024
• Adults With Cirrhosis in the ED: Trends From 2008 to 2022 Adults with cirrhosis made four times more ED visits and had nearly double the post-ED 90-day mortality rates than those with congestive heart failure or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
  Medscape Medical News, September 13, 2024
• Majority of Hospitalized Patients With COPD Misuse Inhalers Despite teaching, nearly 6% of inhalers could not be used without a critical error.
  Medscape Medical News, September 11, 2024
• ERS 2024 COPD Novel Biomarkers Might Improve Monitoring and Treatment Persistent eosinophilia is associated with increased airway wall thickness in COPD, and detecting volatile organic compounds in patients' breath could predict exacerbations.
  Medscape Medical News, September 11, 2024
• ERS 2024 Long-Term Data Support Valve Value for Emphysema Improved lung function and acceptable safety endured over 5 years.
  Medscape Medical News, September 11, 2024