Thursday, February 16, 2012

Old, New and Future Approaches to Asthma Treatment

 

Closing thoughts

While the mainstays of current standard asthma treatment are well established, as they have been for about 15 years, recent scientific advances hold great promise for new treatments that not only target specific points in the abnormal lung response in asthma but may be more tailored to the individual patient with asthma. It is an exciting time and both patients and providers should keep their ears to the ground as new therapies are developed to add to current asthma treatments.