Severe Asthma Research News & Studies

The Wessex Asthma Network and Blue Donut Studios have been working together to create a series of educational videos for people with asthma and COPD. The videos aim to entertain and educate, covering both inhaler technique and triggers for airways diseases. Early versions of the videos have been […]
The MISSION asthma team won a prestigious national HSJ Value in Healthcare award last night, working together with colleagues at Wessex AHSN. The award category is: Value in Healthcare Awards: Value and Improvement in the use of Diagnostics. The winning project is: MISSION Severe Asthma – Modern […]
The allergy team at UHS are holding an allergy training day, aimed at General Practitioners, which will cover the latest advances, how to manage allergy in primary care and when to refer. The programme includes talks from leading experts in allergy as well as covering rhinitis, dermatitis […]
A team of researchers from University Hospital Southampton, University of Southampton and Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust presented a poster at the European Respiratory Society Conference in Munich in September 2014. The research is part of the on-going analysis from the Wessex Severe Asthma Cohort study with data […]
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust has won a prestigious national award for the work it has done to maximise clinical research activity across the Trust. Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust were successful in winning the HSJ “Research Impact” Award 2014 in London on 19th November. Most hospital trusts in […]
The aim of this MRC funded Study is to create a better understanding of the nature of Severe Asthma…
LASER is a multi centre randomised controlled trial to assess the use of a Temperature-controlled Laminar Airflow (TLA) device…
IMT is a single centre double-blind, parallel group randomised controlled trial comparing real IMT with sham IMT. Patients with…
MISSION is a Quality Improvement and Innovation project that will test the acceptability and delivery of a novel…