Asthma News - June 10, 2025

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New GINA 2025 Slide Set Now Available to Download

The slide set summarizes GINA’s objectives, documents, and management recommendations from the 2025 update of the GINA Strategy Report, with background information about asthma and the burden of this disease.

Truth Initiative: Online social forums may be a valuable resource for young people looking to quit e-cigarettes

A recent study found that engagement with an online social community dedicated to quitting was associated with increased confidence in the ability to quit and stay quit. Truth Initiative’s EX Program combines proven-effective text message support along with the nation’s most established online quitting community, offering users the best methods for quitting, all in one place.

Environmental Protection Agency: Create a Clean Room to Protect Indoor Air Quality During a Wildfire

A clean room is a room that is set up to keep levels of smoke and other particles as low as possible during wildfire smoke events. A clean room should be free from activities that create particles such as cooking or smoking, and the doors and windows should be kept closed to prevent smoke from getting in and can contain a portable air cleaner.

‘Treat-to-target’ (TTT): a call for earlier targeted intervention in asthma

Implementing a TTT approach in asthma that focuses on remission as a treatment goal advocates for a more personalised treatment approach whereby the remission target offers patients and clinicians a clear benchmark for the best possible outcomes, and treatments that target the underlying pathophysiology of disease are initiated earlier in the disease course.

Mucus Plug Score (MPS) Predicts Clinical and Pulmonary Function Response to Biologic Therapy in Patients With Severe Asthma

A new study suggests that a higher MPS correlates with worse pulmonary function at baseline but also predicts a larger clinical and pulmonary function response to biologic therapies in severe asthma.

Abuse Liability of Electronic Cigarettes (ECIG) in Never-Smoking Electronic Cigarette Users

People with pod-style ECIG experience, but who have never regularly smoked cigarettes, represent a growing population of nicotine users. Results demonstrate that modern ECIG devices are more reinforcing than nicotine gum and therefore have a higher abuse liability for this vulnerable population.