Asthma Prevention: Right Bugs, Right Time?

The right prevention and treatment for the right patient at the right time

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"Prevention": the right term?

“Prevention”: the Right Term? To the Editor: Rothwell needs to be complimented for highlighting the problems surrounding the terms “prevention” and “reduction in mortality.”1 Trialists, as Tan points out elsewhere,2 often concentrate mainly on the changes in the number of events (y axis) and ignore the changes on the time scale (x axis) in the analysis of survival curves. Malkin and Channer3 ha...

Gestational diabetes mellitus—right person, right treatment, right time?

BACKGROUND Personalised treatment that is uniquely tailored to an individual's phenotype has become a key goal of clinical and pharmaceutical development across many, particularly chronic, diseases. For type 2 diabetes, the importance of the underlying clinical heterogeneity of the condition is emphasised and a range of treatments are now available, with personalised approaches being developed....

Asthma Control: The Right Inhaler for the Right Patient

Inhaled therapy is the cornerstone of asthma management in that it optimizes the delivery of the medication to the site of action. The effectiveness of inhaled therapy is affected by the correct choice of the device and proper inhalation technique. In fact, this influences the drug delivery and distribution along the bronchial tree, including the most peripheral airways. In this context, accumu...