Currently more than 20 inhalers are approved for the management of COPD and marketed in North America. About half are single medication inhalers and half are combination medication inhalers. This ...

replacing metered dose inhalers with dry powder inhalers has been advocated to reduce the carbon footprint of health care.7 However, head-to-head comparisons of LABA-LAMA-inhaled corticosteroid triple ...

and recent studies have shown they may favour inhalers with more environmentally-friendly credentials. We sought to measure how willing patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

Do inhaled corticosteroids elevate risk for pneumonia in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? Several clinical trials, observational studies, and meta-analyses suggest that they do ...

“After the WHO advice, people thought that continuous use of steroids would leave them at a greater risk of contracting the virus or developing more than a mild version of COVID-19.” Inhaled ...

An editorialist concludes that the benefits of inhaled steroids in COPD patients continue to outweigh the risks substantially.

Background With rising concern on the global warming potential of propellants in pressurized metered dose inhalers (pMDIs) it has become increasingly important to identify patients who are able to ...

New Advances in Treatment: In the past, treatments for COPD flares included inhalers, steroids, and antibiotics. Recently, the FDA approved new injectable medications called biologics. These ...

But few would suspect that a critical medical device for millions of people with asthma and COPD—asthma inhalers—could be ...

Qualcomm and its rival Propeller are emerging as the tech companies to partner with in the development of smart inhalers. Virtually all the companies active in the asthma and COPD markets have ...