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Hospital asthma management not on the same page as guidelines

Respiratory specialists are recommending health services check their adherence to asthma guideline recommendations after finding their own Victorian network offered suboptimal post-acute care for patients presenting with asthma attacks. A retrospective study of 1,273 patients with acute asthma treated at The...

Respiratory specialists are recommending health services check their adherence to asthma guideline recommendations after finding their own Victorian network offered...

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Lung cancer

Fine tuning required before lung cancer screening can proceed: Aussie experts

Australia has the evidence and the appetite for a national lung cancer screening program but there is still work to be done especially around design, implementation and funding. Speaking in a Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) 2021 ASM session on...

Australia has the evidence and the appetite for a national lung cancer screening program but there is still work to...

COVID’s impact on TB: increased incidence and mortality for the first time in decades

Short-term disruption to tuberculosis (TB) services, such as that caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, could have far-reaching, long-term consequences on the disease’s global incidence and mortality, according to international experts. The impact of disruption to TB services from the pandemic and...

Short-term disruption to tuberculosis (TB) services, such as that caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, could have far-reaching, long-term consequences on...

News in brief:  FeNO testing recommended by ATS; Concern over rising asthma deaths in females; Speciality training colleges’ ‘dirty secret’

 FeNO testing recommended by ATS Patients with asthma in whom treatment is being considered should undergo testing for Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide (FeNO), the American Thoracic Society has recommended in an updated Clinical Practice Guideline. The ATS said made a conditional...

 FeNO testing recommended by ATS Patients with asthma in whom treatment is being considered should undergo testing for Fractional Exhaled Nitric...