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End-of-life care

How to change the mindset on referrals to palliative care for non-cancer respiratory disease?

Palliative care provides numerous benefits for people with non-cancer advanced respiratory disease, so why is it so little used for patients with a high levels of needs? Respiratory and palliative care physicians from Victoria have investigated why...

Palliative care provides numerous benefits for people with non-cancer advanced respiratory disease, so why is it so little...

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Asthma

In their own words: patients describe the benefits and limits of mAbs for severe asthma

Patients with severe asthma experience significant improvements in quality-of-life and participation in life with add-on monoclonal antibody therapies but there’s still more to be done. Semi-structured interviews with 20 Australian patients revealed four emergent themes - that life is just easier,...

Patients with severe asthma experience significant improvements in quality-of-life and participation in life with add-on monoclonal antibody therapies but there’s...
COPD

Lung transplantation feasible as a last resort for selected patients with severe COVID-19

Lung transplantation is a feasible option for COVID-19 patients with irreversible lung injury but should be reserved for carefully selected patients, early results suggest. Researchers led by Professor Ankit Bharat, of Northwestern University in Chicago, wrote in The Lancet Respiratory...

Lung transplantation is a feasible option for COVID-19 patients with irreversible lung injury but should be reserved for carefully selected...
Medicines

“Significant milestone” for inhaled budesonide benefit as early COVID-19 therapy

Inhaled budesonide can reduce the likelihood of requiring urgent medical care for a COVID-19 infection, and can shorten recovery time as well, according to two studies. Results of the STOIC trial are now fully peer reviewed, while the larger PRINCIPLE...

Inhaled budesonide can reduce the likelihood of requiring urgent medical care for a COVID-19 infection, and can shorten recovery time...