PharmaTimes World News:
Pfizer and Boehringer Ingelheim have been boosted by the news that experts in the USA have recommended expanding the label on their chronic obstructive pulmonary disease blockbuster Spiriva. (Read More)
Health News from Medical News Today:
The European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients Associations (EFA) today launched a book comparing and analysing the situation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Europe for the first time from (Read More)
MedWire Medical News Combined Feed:
Patients with various subtypes of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease differ in their response to inhaled treatment with a combined long-acting beta-agonist and corticosteroid, Korean study results show. (Read More)
MedWorm: Asthma:
Molecular profiling of exhaled breath using an “electronic nose” can accurately distinguish patients with asthma from those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, say Dutch researchers. (Read More)
World Pharma News:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee voted 11 to 1 that clinical data included in a supplemental new drug application (sNDA) provide substantial and convincing evidence to sup (Read More)
MedWire Medical News Combined Feed:
Multiple unreported chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations have a significant negative effect on patients’ health-related quality of life, study results show. (Read More)
MedWire Medical News Combined Feed:
Lung Allocation Score is associated with pre- but not post-lung transplant survival in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients, US research shows. (Read More)
The Guardian:
She's 81 and growing frail, but revered author and poet Maya Angelou has lost none of her legendary wisdom and humour. In a rare interview, she explains why she's not about to retireDuring a trip to Senegal, Maya Angelou cal (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
She's 81 and growing frail, but revered author and poet Maya Angelou has lost none of her legendary wisdom and humour. In a rare interview, she explains why she's not about to retireDuring a trip to Senegal, Maya Angelou cal (Read More)
MedWire Medical News Combined Feed:
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease face an increased risk for death from lung cancer and other non-pulmonary malignancies, say researchers who also found that statin therapy may reduce cancer-related mortalit (Read More)
The IN VIVO Blog:
Oh, venture capitalists. After Dow Jones released its third quarter investment numbers for venture capital two weeks ago, we decided to mine our database to see if all flavors of vc--traditional and strategic--were equally af (Read More)
MedWire Medical News Combined Feed:
Treatment with the antibiotic moxifloxacin is effective at eradicating potentially pathogenic microorganisms in the airways of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, but does not prevent recolonization, research (Read More)
WebMD Health:
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which makes breathing tough for one in every five people over age 45, is becoming a better-known condition, but nearly half of people surveyed seem unsure that it can be treated, a new s (Read More)
MedWire Medical News Combined Feed:
Treatment with dichloroacetate improves physical performance while reducing exercise-induced systemic oxidative stress and inflammatory response in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, results of a Dutch study (Read More)
MedWire Medical News Combined Feed:
Exhaled nitric oxide has limited value for predicting short-term response to oral corticosteroids in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, research shows. (Read More)
MedWire Medical News Combined Feed:
Significant differences in computed tomography measures of emphysema and airway wall thickness exist among individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, research shows. (Read More)
MedWire Medical News Combined Feed:
Stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients with a hypersensitive cough reflex in response to inhaled capsaicin have increased serum C-reactive protein levels and an increased frequency of subsequent exacerbations, (Read More)
MedWire Medical News Combined Feed:
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients who present with acute exacerbations have a high prevalence of vertebral compression fractures, particularly those with a low body mass index, study results suggest. (Read More)
PharmaTimes World News:
Novartis will have to provide more information to the US Food and Drug Administration before it can get its chronic obstructive pulmonary disease investigational drug indacaterol onto the market. (Read More)