“Our research into clinical remission in asthma could enable patients to achieve long-term freedom from exacerbations and the need for oral-corticosteroids, while also maintaining their lung function and providing optimal symptom control. “This is just one example of how we are working to improve...
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Exposure to air pollution poses a significant public health threat and, globally, is responsible for 7 million premature deaths every year [1] owing to illnesses such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer [2]. The health impacts of air pollution span the entire...
In 1993, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute collaborated with the World Health Organization to convene a workshop that led to a Workshop Report: Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention. This presented a comprehensive plan to manage asthma with the goal of reducing chronic...
Postma DS, Rabe KF (2015) The asthma-COPD overlap syndrome. N Engl J Med 373(13):1241–1249. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMra1411863 Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Beghe B, Fabbri LM, O’Byrne PM (2021) Coexisting asthma and COPD. In: Agache I, Cezmi AA (eds) Global atlas of...
like asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis, lung cancer. It also includes topics on respiratory infections like bronchitis, tuberculosis, pneumonia and diagnostics involved in diagnosis of lung conditions. ...
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Joshua A. Boyce, MD, chief of the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, is the senior author of a paper published in Immunity, "Mast Cells Control Lung Type 2 Inflammation via Prostaglandin ... May 30, 2024 0 1 page 1 from 20 « » Phys...
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MASK is participating in EU projects (POLLAR: impact of air POLLution in Asthma and Rhinitis, EIT Health, DigitalHealthEurope, Euriphi and Vigour). Lessons learnt (i) Adherence to treatment is the major problem of allergic disease, (ii) Self-management strategies should be considerably expanded ...