A clinical trial of the drug benralizumab showed it was far more effective than conventional steroid tablets at treating life-threatening breathing difficulties in people with a severe form of the ...

The researchers found that Fasenra can be more effective than the oral corticosteroid prednisolone when injected during an ...

A trial by King's College London has found that an injection given during an attack of asthma or the lung disease COPD is ...

Benralizumab is a monoclonal antibody that targets specific white blood cells, called eosinophils, to reduce lung ...

A novel asthma burden score that incorporated asthma exacerbations and healthcare utilization better reflected disease ...

Scientists have found a new treatment for people with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that may be more effective than current options. Over the past 50 years, treatment options ...

Asthma is the most common chronic disease of children. Asthma causes more hospitalizations than any other medical problem in children. Asthma is associated with rhinitis and atopic dermatitis as ...

Scientists say this is the first new way of treating the attacks in 50 years despite 3.8 million deaths across the world ...

Nearly 4 million patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma die each year, mostly from severe acute exacerbations.1 For the past 60 years, systemic corticosteroids have been ...

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 ...

Asthma patients to be shown leaflets detailing climate impact of inhalers as NHS estimates they account for 3pc of their ...

Certain chronic conditions that affect the lungs, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), can have ...