COPD

December 2, 2015May 12, 2016

Registration Opens for 2016 Asthma & COPD Conference

COPD, News

The SMi Group, a company that hosts events worldwide, recently announced that registration is now open for the 12th Annual Asthma & COPD Conference and Exhibition, set to run April 11-12, 2016, in London. Noteworthy ... Read more

November 23, 2015November 23, 2015

German Assessment Sees Limits to New COPD Inhalation Therapy

COPD, News

The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) recently published a dossier assessment of the drug combination tiotropium and olodaterol, finding that the therapy showed some added benefit over appropriate comparator ... Read more

November 19, 2015November 19, 2015

New Mobile COPD App Launched By Aeri Health in Partnership With The Lung Association

COPD, News

Aeri Health, a medical technology company, along with the Lung Association, an organization dedicated to promoting health information and proper care for lung health in Canada through its Breathing as ... Read more

November 18, 2015

Novartis Announces Positive Data from Phase III FLAME Clinical Trial in COPD

COPD, News

Novartis recently announced positive first data from its Phase III, head-to-head FLAME clinical trial investigating the rate of chronic exacerbations in patients with obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) after being treated with its investigational ... Read more

November 17, 2015May 12, 2016

DYNAGITO COPD Clinical Trial to Test Investigational Inhaler Drug

COPD, News

Clinical Trials Research announced their participation in a new COPD clinical study to measure the performance and safety of a combination therapy inhaler that includes tiotropium and olodaterol. In COPD – ... Read more

November 9, 2015November 9, 2015

Nonin Medical’s COPD STEP™ Plan Set to be implemented in U.S hospitals This Month

COPD, News

Nonin Medical, Inc., the company that invented the finger pulse oximeter, and Tri-anim Health Services, Inc., a company specialized in providing innovative products and clinical expertise to hospitals, have partnered ... Read more

November 6, 2015November 9, 2015

New Asthma, COPD Studies Underway into Promising New Therapy

Asthma, COPD, News

Verona Pharma PLC, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of the best quality drugs for the treatment of respiratory diseases, announced the end of patient recruitment for two ... Read more

November 5, 2015November 9, 2015

COPD Exacerbations Linked to Increased Levels of Lung Neuropeptide

COPD, News

Increased levels of serum vasoactive intestinal peptide were found to be associated with acute exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to the findings of a recent ... Read more

November 5, 2015May 12, 2016

New COPD Respiratory Assist System Receives FDA Priority Status

COPD, News

ALung Technologies, Inc., recently announced that its Hemolung Respiratory Assist System (RAS) has received Expedited Access Pathway (EAP) designation and priority processing status from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as ... Read more

October 30, 2015November 9, 2015

AstraZeneca’s COPD Inhalation Therapy Now Available in Canada

COPD, News

AstraZeneca Canada has announced that DUAKLIR™ GENUAIR®, a treatment system currently available in other countries to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including chronic bronchitis and/or emphysema, is now available in Canada and through the Canadian ... Read more