ALLMedicine™ Asthma Center

Aug 8th, 2022 - Jonathan Silverberg, MD, PhD, MPH Atopic dermatitis (AD) is truly a fascinating disease! Despite the thousands of scientific manuscripts published on AD, more novel insights keep coming about the clinical manifestations and risk factors of this co.

Aug 6th, 2022 - Activation of interleukin (IL)-4 receptor (R) signaling in airway epithelial cells leads to airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) and mucus overproduction in asthma. Cadherin-26 (CDH26), a cadherin implicated in the polarization of airway epithelial ce...

Aug 6th, 2022 - Objective: The majority of patients with asthma limit their physical activity due to the fear of exercise dyspnea. Regular exercise, on the other hand, is currently suggested as one of the non-pharmaceutical treatment alternatives for patients wit...

Aug 6th, 2022 - Preharvest burning of sugarcane is a common agricultural practice in Florida, which produces fine particulate matter [particulate matter (PM) with aerodynamic diameter ≤2.5μm (PM2.5)] that is associated with higher mortality. We estimated prematur...

Aug 6th, 2022 - The Predicting Asthma Risk in Children (PARC) tool uses questionnaire-based respiratory symptoms collected from preschool children to predict asthma risk 5 years later. The tool was developed and validated in population cohorts but not validated u...

May 31st, 2022 - Whether children and people with asthma and allergic diseases are at increased risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection is unknown.

May 18th, 2022 - SAN FRANCISCO -- For neighborhoods near a major coking operation in Pittsburgh, its shutdown at the end of 2015 was followed by markedly lower rates of respiratory disease hospitalizations, researchers reported here. Inpatient admissions for ch...

Feb 3rd, 2022 - The practice parameter update on anaphylaxis from the Joint Task Force on Practice Parameters, with the collaboration of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology and the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, addresses...

Nov 20th, 2021 - Chronic cough is defined by a duration lasting at least 8 weeks. The most common causes of chronic cough include smoking-related lung disease, upper airway cough syndrome, asthma, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and nonasthmatic eosinophilic bron...

Aug 26th, 2021 - • The 2020 Focused Updates to the Asthma Management Guidelines: A Report from the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Coordinating Committee Expert Panel Working Group provides updated recommendations for 6 topics related to the manag...

Aug 5th, 2022 - Allergic inflammation is central to the pathogenesis of allergic diseases, including atopic dermatitis, asthma, allergic rhinitis, and food allergy. These disorders are common, affecting up to 50 million Americans, and their pathophysiology remain...

Aug 5th, 2022 - Medical care has improved greatly over the past 50 years. Treatments for most medical conditions can help us lead longer and healthier lives, but there are still problems. Many patients with two or more conditions see many different doctors and so...

Aug 5th, 2022 - Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases. Little change in morbidity and mortality has occurred despite improvements in pharmacotherapy. In the last few decades, there has been an increase in the prevalence of asthma and other allergic di...

Aug 5th, 2022 - Growing evidences have pointed to the role of 5-lipooxygenase / leukotriene pathway in the pathogenesis of diabesity. Cysteinyl leukotrienes (Cys-LT) are potent inflammatory lipid mediators derived from the 5-lipoxygenase pathway of arachidonic ac...

Aug 5th, 2022 - The COVID19 pandemic is having an immeasurable impact on the economy and on morbidity and mortality. Knowledge and scientific evidence about this disease is advancing rapidly, but it is not yet known whether asthmatic patients suffering from COVID...

Aug 8th, 2022 - Jonathan Silverberg, MD, PhD, MPH Atopic dermatitis (AD) is truly a fascinating disease! Despite the thousands of scientific manuscripts published on AD, more novel insights keep coming about the clinical manifestations and risk factors of this co.

Aug 8th, 2022 - How to Diagnose and Treat Cannabis Allergies As medical and recreational cannabis becomes legal and more popular — as of 2022, cannabis use for medical purposes is legal in 37 states — the importance of physicians' ability to diagnose patients and...

Aug 5th, 2022 - Alpine altitude climate treatment (AACT) may help people with asthma that remains severe despite maximum guideline-adherent treatment, according to a position paper by the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI).  “AACT improve...

Aug 5th, 2022 - As medicinal and recreational cannabis become legal and more popular in more places, clinicians need to learn how to diagnose and manage cannabis allergies, an international overview and consensus document recommends. Allergic reactions to cannabi...

Aug 4th, 2022 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Michael Wechsler, MD: Hello. I'm Dr Mike Wechsler and welcome to Medscape's InDiscussion series on moderate to severe asthma. This is episode 2 of the first season, and today we'll be discussing precisi...