If you begin taking biologics, it’s important that you still take all of your other long-term or quick-relief asthma medications unless your doctor tells you to stop.

Biologic drugs, made mainly from antibodies, have transformed the approach to treating chronic inflammatory diseases such as asthma and rheumatoid arthritis. We explore their mechanisms and potential.

WASHINGTON — Physicians have a variety of safe and effective biologic choices for treating children with asthma, according to a presentation at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma ...

Fasenra and Dupixent (dupilumab) are both biologic medications prescribed to treat severe eosinophilic asthma in adults and some children. (Biologics are medications made from living cells rather ...

Biologic drugs for asthma may be initiated or continued while conceiving or during pregnancy or breastfeeding following appropriate risk-benefit discussions and shared decision-making, ...

Medication lapses also raise a patient’s risk for asthma-related mortality. The World Health Organization estimates that 250,000 people die prematurely each year due to asthma.

Physicians should track clinical remission in patients with asthma on biologics and monitor for EGPA symptoms, as corticosteroid tapering may unmask underlying disease, studies reported.

There are six biologics approved for asthma and almost all of them have been studied in COPD, Drummond said. The problem, Drummond said, is that those drugs were tested in a broad sample of COPD ...

Asthma symptoms tend to ebb and flow throughout the day, often worsening overnight. This pattern suggests that aligning asthma medication with the body’s natural rhythm—an approach known as ...