‘You’ll be right. Just take Ventolin’: Complacency jeopardises management of mild asthma
Many patients with mild asthma remain complacent and confused about how best to manage their condition, having often received conflicting treatment advice from clinicians, an Australian-led study suggests. The qualitative research also found most patients preferred a regimen of as-needed budesonide-formoterol over maintenance inhaled corticosteroids after they had been initiated on...
Long COVID partly inflammation driven: PHOSP-COVID
Systemic inflammation, and obesity, might be treatable traits in patients with long COVID and could potentially underpin a precision medicine approach to managing the condition, UK researchers say. The study, published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, also revealed the extent of COVID-19’s long-term impact on patients, finding that...
ATS 2022 - Australian context, international perspectives
Join a panel of experts as they present their highlights from the American Thoracic Society 2022 International Conference and discuss the impacts for practice. Hosted by Associate Professor Natasha Smallwood Consultant Respiratory Physician, Dept of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne; Principal Research Fellow, Monash University;...
ATS 2022: Hope for IPF stabilisation with new selective PDE4 inhibitor
A preferential phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor (PDE4B) has shown promise in preventing lung function decline in patients with IPF in an international study including an Australian site. A phase 2 RCT, published in the NEJM and presented at ATS 2022, compared...
A preferential phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor (PDE4B) has shown promise in preventing lung function decline in patients with IPF in an...
High profile respiratory physician quits citing pandemic burnout
A leading respiratory physician has quit Victoria’s public hospital system in protest at mounting staff burnout and deteriorating conditions after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Professor John Wilson says he has grave concerns over the wellbeing of doctors and other...
A leading respiratory physician has quit Victoria’s public hospital system in protest at mounting staff burnout and deteriorating conditions after...
News in brief: Chest X-rays unsuitable for silicosis screening; SABA-ICS combination should replace salbutamol as rescue medication; Medical acronyms mystify patients
Chest X-rays unsuitable for silicosis screening WA has switched to using low dose high resolution CT imaging for screening workers in the engineered stone industry after a study showed that chest X-rays were missing many cases of silicosis. When 90 workers took...
Chest X-rays unsuitable for silicosis screening WA has switched to using low dose high resolution CT imaging for screening workers in...