COPD

Kimberly Henderson, MD, JD, medical director for the Health Systems Alliance at CVS Health and regional medical director for MinuteClinic, discusses how MinuteClinic enhances COPD management.

GOLD group classification system could not predict lung function decline.

Patients who received immediate treatment recommendations saw improved symptom control.

The FDA has added an asthma indication to Boehringer Ingelheim's tiotropium bromide inhalation spray (Spiriva Respimat).

Aclidinium bromide and formoterol provide an additional benefit over the traditional therapy regimen.

Kimberly Henderson, MD, JD, medical director for the Health Systems Alliance at CVS Health and regional medical director for MinuteClinic, discusses the biggest roadblocks to managing COPD and how pharmacists can help overcome those challenges.

Kimberly Henderson, MD, JD, medical director for the Health Systems Alliance at CVS Health and regional medical director for MinuteClinic, discusses some techniques pharmacists can demonstrate for inhaled medications like Dulera and Symbicort.

Pharmacist intervention can reduce 30- and 60-day readmissions with accompanying cost savings.

Both conditions are separate diseases with different causes, diagnostic procedures, and treatments.

Minor benefit found adult patients with grade II, or moderate, COPD when adding aclidinium bromide and formoterol.

Several advancements have been made in COPD medication classes.

Kimberly Henderson, MD, JD, medical director for the Health Systems Alliance at CVS Health and regional medical director for MinuteClinic, discusses some counseling points pharmacists can provide to patients on COPD medications.

A list of the most debilitating diseases a patient may face over his or her lifetime was recently curated by Healthcare Business and Technology.

Multidose medication dispensing at discharge (MMDD) involves supplying products that have been partially used during hospitalization to ensure continuity of care.

Kimberly Henderson, MD, JD, medical director for the Health Systems Alliance at CVS Health and regional medical director for MinuteClinic, discusses some strategies pharmacists can use to support COPD management.

There are immense oppurtunities to transform the inhaler into a tool that tracks patients' use of asthma and COPD medications.

Kimberly Henderson, MD, JD, medical director for the Health Systems Alliance at CVS Health and regional medical director for MinuteClinic, discusses what pharmacists need to know about managing COPD.

The FDA has fast-tracked Cempra's solithromycin to treat community acquired bacterial pneumonia.

Follow up care with pulmonologist crucial to health outcomes.

Turnover from novel therapeutic target to model systems in clinical use remains a challenge.

Respiratory diseases affect millions worldwide and greatly burden the global health care system financially.

Medication will be used as an add-on maintenance therapy in patients aged 12 years and older.

Oxygen therapy use spikes since 2000.

Up to 13% of patients diagnosed with COPD under the GOLD criteria are actually misdiagnosed.

Up to 13% of patients considered to have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) under current criteria were recently found to be misdiagnosed.

Generic Pulmicort Respules is approved for the treatment of asthma and to serve as prophylactic therapy in children aged 12 months to 8 years.

Here are new drugs for 2015 that pharmacists can expect to handle.

Everyday walking is the most commonly reported problematic daily activity for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Warfarin remains a cornerstone anticoagulant for a number of reasons that include its low cost at the pharmacy counter.

Premature aging of the lung cells plays a factor in pathogenesis.