Pulmonology

A pilot study led by researcher Alejandro Moreno-Rangel at the Texas A&M School of Public Health in McAllen, Texas, analyzed how indoor air quality (IAQ) interventions affect health. Specifically, Moreno-Rangel was interested in how these interventions might impact the health of children with asthma living in low-income communities along the U.S.-Mexico border. His study is...

Asthma disparities are commonly experienced by racial/ethnic minorities in the United States. This association continues to be examined in medical research. Researchers are attempting to generate a fine-grained analysis of these disparities to better understand their causes and how they manifest in different regions of the country. A study published in the Journal of Asthma analyzed...

Black and Hispanic patients have long been subjected to undertreatment across specialties within the U.S. healthcare system. This disparate treatment is particularly evident in minority patients with asthma, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. A study from The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice sought to uncover the reasons behind asthma treatment disparities in...

What is Eosinophilic asthma? Eosinophilic asthma (EA) is characterized by severe, chronic disease. Approximately 10% of all cases of asthma are defined as severe, and nearly half of those with severe asthma have signs of EA. The disease typically has an onset in adulthood, with diagnosis peaking in adults aged 35-50. While most asthma results...

Your patients are likely aware that cigarette smoking can kill them. They probably also know that cigarettes contain chemicals—a mix of over 7,000 chemicals, in fact—that can cause diseases including cancer, cardiovascular disease, and COPD.1 What they may not know is that other tobacco products, like e-cigarettes, hookah, and smokeless tobacco, contain some of the...

Every organ in the human body serves an important purpose in keeping it running and in prime condition. Most healthy people are not cognizant of their organs—like lungs—on a daily basis, because they are able to breathe without difficulty and perform their daily tasks without major effort. But damage to these vital organs can cause...