Standard teaching of health care professionals for decades in the United States has been that those individuals who have more than rare instances of asthma need one medicine to use daily to prevent symptoms and a second medicine in the form of a bronchodilator inhaler to be available to stop, or rescue from, symptoms. The […]
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Asthma and COVID-19: Making Sense of Data
For the past three years, I have written about updates in peanut desensitization during the month of July. However, I have received questions about the risks of COVID-19 for those with asthma over the past month. So, this month’s blog will –for the 3rd month this year—be devoted to the medical condition affecting all of […]
Coronavirus Part II: The Way Out Of This
I had planned to write this month about the latest research in biologic therapy for allergic diseases—the theme of this year’s annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology during March 13th-March 16th in Philadelphia. That plan changed at 4:10pm on Sunday March 8th when I received an e-mail announcing that the […]