Asthma

Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) occur together at an alarming rate.

Kristen L. Marjama, DNP, MSN, FNP-BC, clinical educator with Healthcare Clinic at Walgreens in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, discusses the biggest roadblocks to managing asthma.

Childhood pneumonia carries a higher risk of chronic bronchitis and other disease-related quality of life issues.

Kristen L. Marjama, DNP, MSN, FNP-BC, clinical educator with Healthcare Clinic at Walgreens in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, discusses counseling points for different asthma medication classes.

GOLD group classification system could not predict lung function decline.

The FDA has added an asthma indication to Boehringer Ingelheim's tiotropium bromide inhalation spray (Spiriva Respimat).

Aclidinium bromide and formoterol provide an additional benefit over the traditional therapy regimen.

Kristen L. Marjama, DNP, MSN, FNP-BC, clinical educator with Healthcare Clinic at Walgreens in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, discusses counseling points that pharmacists can provide to patients on asthma medications.

Pharmacist intervention can reduce 30- and 60-day readmissions with accompanying cost savings.

Both conditions are separate diseases with different causes, diagnostic procedures, and treatments.

Minor benefit found adult patients with grade II, or moderate, COPD when adding aclidinium bromide and formoterol.

Kristen L. Marjama, DNP, MSN, FNP-BC, clinical educator with Healthcare Clinic at Walgreens in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, discusses strategies pharmacists can use to support asthma management.

There are immense oppurtunities to transform the inhaler into a tool that tracks patients' use of asthma and COPD medications.

Kristen L. Marjama, DNP, MSN, FNP-BC, clinical educator with Healthcare Clinic at Walgreens in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, discusses what pharmacists need to know about asthma.

Follow up care with pulmonologist crucial to health outcomes.

Turnover from novel therapeutic target to model systems in clinical use remains a challenge.

Medication will be used as an add-on maintenance therapy in patients aged 12 years and older.

Oxygen therapy use spikes since 2000.

Up to 13% of patients diagnosed with COPD under the GOLD criteria are actually misdiagnosed.

Generic Pulmicort Respules is approved for the treatment of asthma and to serve as prophylactic therapy in children aged 12 months to 8 years.

Sandoz has launched a generic version of AstraZeneca's asthma drug Pulmicort Respules in the US market.

The approximate 1 in 10 asthma patients who have severe disease do not respond to mainstay corticosteroid treatment, even in high doses.

Premature aging of the lung cells plays a factor in pathogenesis.

Asthma's increasingly deleterious morbidity and socioeconomic burden are of tremendous concern to clinicians and public health officials.

Lung function and health status decreases across all levels of severity.