Every 30 seconds, someone in the world will experience a flare-up of their asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) symptoms. For decades, the standard treatment for these ...

Poor treatment of asthma and COPD puts a huge burden on the NHS. For example, £1 billion is spent on asthma treatment in the UK each year and represents 60,000 to 65,000 hospital admissions.

“Asthma and COPD are conditions that present often with ... Just be careful to have a clear diagnosis before starting treatment; inhalers are not benign.” Skalski, Beuther, Galiatsatos ...

It can also affect quality of life more than those who have only asthma or COPD. ACOS is chronic and progressive, meaning symptoms can worsen over time. Treatment and disease management can help ...

Treatment for asthma and COPD exacerbations have not changed in fifty years despite causing 3.8 million deaths worldwide a year combined. "Benralizumab is a safe and effective drug already used to ...

The Spanish COPD guidelines recommend treatment of the mixed COPD–asthma phenotype with ICS and a long-acting bronchodilator (LABD) as a first option to improve lung function, respiratory ...

Women with COPD, asthma, and OSA may go undiagnosed or without proper care because their symptomatology differs from the classic male presentation.

If these trials confirm the findings, benralizumab could become the first new therapy approved for eosinophilic exacerbations of asthma and COPD in over 50 years. In the time it has taken you to ...