Ragweed sublingual immunotherapy tablet improved symptoms and decreased the need for rescue medication in the largest allergy immunotherapy trial in children with ragweed allergic rhinitis with or without conjunctivitis.
High-dose peanut oral immunotherapy provided similar or greater efficacy than other previously reported forms of peanut oral immunotherapy without additional safety concerns.
The majority of patients with cystic fibrosis experience at least 1 antibiotic adverse drug reaction.
Asthma appeared to be associated with lower mortality in patients admitted to the hospital with myocardial infarction.
Treatment with aclidinium bromide reduced the rate of exacerbations in patients with moderate to severe COPD and high cardiovascular risk.
A typical usual interstitial pneumonia pattern was the predominant radiologic pattern seen in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and pulmonary hypertension.
Statin therapy before septic shock may decrease the risk for acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Noninvasive ventilation, deep vein puncture/catheterization, bed rest/immobilization, pulmonary heart disease, and type 2 respiratory failure were factors considered to be associated with a higher risk for venous thromboembolism in patients hospitalized with an acute exacerbation of COPD.
Current US Preventive Services Task Force guidelines are not applicable to most women at risk for lung cancer.
Sputum cell count, as measured by a simplified method, was able to differentiate between asthma, COPD, and asthma-COPD overlap.
