New Australian asthma guidelines

The National Asthma Council Australia has launched its updated Australian Asthma Handbook outlining impor­tant new recommendations encouraging health profes­sionals to stop prescribing as-needed short-acting beta-2 agonists alone to manage asthma in adults and adolescents. Anti-inflammatory reliever (AIR)-only therapy and maintenance-and-reliever therapy (MART) are now recommended for asthma management in people aged 12 years and over. The Handbook states that all adults and adolescents with asthma need inhaled corticosteroids as part of their treatment to reduce inflammation and prevent exacerbations. Read more at https://www.asthmahandbook.org.au and a review of the updates in the September 2025 issue of Respiratory Medicine Today.