Elizabeth Short

National study also weighs in on the impact of vape liquid flavors

Semaglutide May Help Smokers Quit, Study Suggests

Safety Flagged for Long-Term Oral Corticosteroids for Eczema

Unlike a behavioral intervention, nasal sprays were effective in reducing days of illness among high-risk groups vulnerable to respiratory infections, a large randomized controlled trial found.In primary care settings across the U.K., enrolled patients self-reported significantly fewer days of respiratory illness via 6-month questionnaire if they had been randomly assigned a saline spray (6.4 days, adjusted incidence rate ratio [IRR] 0.81, 99% CI 0.74-0.88) or a gel-based nasal spray (6.5 days,…

Italian study emphasizes the role of RSV prophylaxis

A regional primary care, nonphysician-based program for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was associated with improved longer-term survival, a propensity-matched cohort study in Hong Kong showed.COPD patients seen in family medicine and general outpatient clinics that participated in Nurse and Allied Health Clinic-Respiratory Care (NAHC-Respiratory) had lower risks of all-cause mortality through roughly 7 years of follow-up compared with patients who had usual care at other public out…

Randomized trial of lower-income adults suffered significant losses to follow-up

COVID-19 vaccination was associated with a decrease in the prevalence of parent-reported asthma symptoms among kids, according to a cross-sectional study.A linear regression analysis showed that with each increase of 10 percentage points in COVID vaccination coverage, parent-reported child asthma symptom prevalence decreased by 0.36 percentage points (P=0.04), reported Matthew M. Davis, MD, MAPP, of Nemours Children’s Health in Wilmington, Delaware, and Lakshmi K. Halasyamani, MD, of the Univers…

'Former smokers who use e-cigarettes remain at increased risk of lung cancer,' researchers say

Exposure to air pollution in childhood was directly associated with bronchitic symptoms in adulthood, according to findings from a decades-long study from California.In fact, each standard deviation (SD) increase in mean childhood exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) -- a common byproduct from fossil fuel combustion -- was associated with a 51% higher odds of cough, phlegm, and bronchitis symptoms in adulthood (OR 1.51, 95% CI 1.00-2.27).And each SD increase in mean exposure to particulate mat…