Anxiety risk higher in kids with asthma: study
Preschoolers with asthma could benefit from early psychological screening and interventions to reduce their risk of anxiety during adolescence, according to Australian researchers. The advice…
Tag: Asthma
Cash not care: Is the asthma drug GP crackdown all about money?
There is still no official word on why GPs have been banned from initiating Flixotide Junior and Axotide Junior under the PBS for children under…
PBS abruptly restricts GP prescribing of kids’ asthma inhaler
GPs say they have been blindsided by new PBS rules on initiating the asthma preventer fluticasone propionate in young children without non-GP specialist input. Since…
Half of GPs ‘not told’ when paediatric patients rehospitalised for asthma
One in three kids with asthma are readmitted to hospital with exacerbations within a year of their first presentation, yet fewer than half of GPs…
Higher carotid plaque burden seen with persistent asthma: study
Higher carotid plaque burden and higher levels of inflammatory biomarkers are seen among patients with persistent asthma versus those without asthma, according to a study…
Budesonide to remain script only for asthma: TGA
The TGA has knocked back a proposal to make budesonide available over the counter for asthma, saying it would not curb the overuse of salbutamol. …
A GP guide to severe asthma in adults
Need to know: Asthma is a heterogeneous disease characterised by chronic airway inflammation, reversible expiratory airflow limitation and airway hyper-responsiveness.1 Roughly 10% of Australians have…
You suspect your patient has COPD: What’s next?
ADG talks to Dr Kerry Hancock about the challenges and opportunities in management
Children with poorly controlled asthma ‘falling through cracks in care’
The rate of hospital readmissions is climbing, Australian researchers warn.
Metabolite may hold key to new severe asthma therapies
Australian-led research shows patients with severe disease have lower levels of carnitine in their urine, says Dr Stacey Reinke from Edith Cowan Un…
