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Cough

Late-stage therapeutic developmentEmerging researchCooling momentum
7
Publications
19
Clinical trials
5
Related conditions
2023
Latest publication

What's happening now

An analyst briefing on current research, clinical, regulatory and industry activity surrounding this disease.

Clinical Milestones8View
Industry & Market2View
Activity timeline10

Therapeutic landscape

Therapies with a regulatory footing for this condition, alongside the wider set of agents co-studied with it in the literature.

Approved & established therapies
Gefapixantapproved

Approval — Lyfnua is indicated in adults for the treatment of refractory or unexplained chronic coug… (2023)

Clinical trials

17 sponsors · 4 new · 2 completed in the last 12 months (net +4)

The current development programme across all trial phases.

Clinical programme
19
All trials
6
Active
17
Late-stage
6
Completed
Late-stage studies
Recruiting
Recently completed

Regulatory timeline

Drug regulatory events matched to this condition by indication — EMA.

First approvals
2023emaApprovalGefapixant· Lyfnua is indicated in adults for the treatment of refractory or unexplained chronic cough. source ↗

European Medicines Agency (CC BY 4.0). Events are matched to this condition by drug indication text — approvals/updates for drugs indicated for it, not disease-specific acts.

Research activity

7 papers

Key research shaping understanding of this disease, combining the latest publications with the most influential evidence.

Publications over time
20032023
Most influential
Recent publications
Major themes8
  • Disease Outbreaks2
  • Air Movements1
  • Air Pollutants1
  • Betacoronavirus1
  • Coronavirus Infections1
  • COVID-191
  • Exhalation1
  • Models, Theoretical1
Leading journals6
  • Immunity, inflammation and disease1
  • Indoor air1
  • Journal of internal medicine1
  • Military Medical Research1
  • PloS one1
  • Scientific reports1
Leading researchers8
  • Adachi D1
  • Ameeq M1
  • Anfinrud P1
  • Arbyn M1
  • Asadi S1
  • Ayers M1
  • Barreda S1
  • Bax A1
Affiliations (unnormalised)6
  • Air Quality Research Center1
  • Bristol Medical School1
  • Center for Interventional Medicine1
  • Center of Infectious Disease1
  • Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging and Guangdong Provincial Engineering Research Center of Molecular Imaging1
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai1

Related conditions

5 matches

Diseases frequently studied alongside this one. Number shows shared papers.

Disease profile

A grounded synthesis of the condition — overview, causes, mechanism, risk factors and current standard of care.

Overview

Cough is a sudden, audible expulsion of air from the lungs through a partially closed glottis, preceded by inhalation. It is a protective response that helps clear the trachea, bronchi, and lungs of irritants and secretions, and helps prevent aspiration of foreign material into the airways.

Causes

The supplied grounding does not identify specific causes of cough as a disease entity. It only describes cough as a protective respiratory response and notes its occurrence in the context of COVID-19.

Pathophysiology

Cough involves inhalation followed by forceful expulsion of air through a partially closed glottis. The mechanism is a protective exhalation-based reflex that clears airway irritants and secretions and reduces aspiration risk.

Current standard of care

The supplied grounding does not support a general treatment standard for cough. In the provided literature, cough is discussed mainly as a symptom in COVID-19 and as a contributor to respiratory droplet transmission, rather than as a condition with a defined modality-based treatment approach.

AI-generated summary grounded in MeSH and 3 peer-reviewed sources. Informational only — not medical advice. Generated 2026-07-07.

Reference

Authoritative identity, definition & identifiers.

Defined in MeSH

A sudden, audible expulsion of air from the lungs through a partially closed glottis, preceded by inhalation. It is a protective response that serves to clear the trachea, bronchi, and/or lungs of irritants and secretions, or to prevent aspiration of foreign materials into the lungs.

Identifiers
References & data sources
  • Disease identity & definition — NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), public domain
  • Clinical trials — ClinicalTrials.gov (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
  • Research activity — Europe PMC (EMBL-EBI) + OpenAlex-derived paper links
  • Related entities are derived from literature co-mention (studied together) — associative, not causal.