Researchers in the United Kingdom compared the potential impact on carbon footprint and asthma symptom control of switching maintenance therapy to a dry powder inhaler vs continuing with a metered ...

Miguel Divo, a lung specialist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, sits in an exam room across from Joel Rubinstein, who has asthma. Rubinstein, a retired psychiatrist, is about to get a ...

New research from UCLA Health suggests that certain inhalers used to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are not only less harmful to the environment but can also lead to slightly ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A metered-dose inhaler was switched to a dry-powder inhaler in Veterans Affairs facilities. Veterans who did vs.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with asthma who switched from a metered-dose inhaler to a dry-powder inhaler cut their inhaler carbon ...

Switching asthma patients from a pressurised metered dose inhaler (pMDI) to a dry powder inhaler (DPI) for maintenance therapy more than halves their carbon footprint without loss of asthma control, ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday published a revised draft guidance on metered dose inhalers (MDIs) and dry powder inhalers (DPIs), offering recommendations on chemistry, ...

Flovent, a popular corticosteroid inhaler used to treat asthma, is no longer available. The global manufacturer, Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK), announced in May that the medications — Flovent HFA, a metered ...

Background and Goal: This study examined whether patients with non-reversible chronic airway disease using a transparent capsule in single-dose dry powder inhalers affects the amount of medication ...

“Inhalers produce as much carbon emissions as half a million cars each year.” That’s how headlines read after a startling new JAMA analysis revealed that the 160 million inhalers dispensed in the US ...

New research from UCLA Health suggests that certain inhalers used to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are not only less harmful to the environment but can also lead to slightly ...

Some doctors are promoting propellant-free inhalers over puff inhalers that emit greenhouse gases. Climate change can exacerbate respiratory ills... Could better asthma inhalers help patients, and the ...