Inhalers for COPD provide steroids, bronchodilators, or combination drugs. The three types differ in the mechanism by which the medication is inhaled and have different instructions for use.

The researchers looked at the three main types of inhalers: the metered dose, the soft-mist, and the dry-powder. They also calculated how many prescriptions for each type of inhaler is written ...

Polluting Puff: Asthma Inhalers Are Big Contributors to Climate Change By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Tiny puffs from asthma inhalers could be ...

President Joe Biden’s career-defining victories over Big Pharma — reforming Medicare to lower prices and capping inhaler costs for millions of Americans with lung disease — are facing an ...

A pharmaceutical company has recalled six batches of albuterol sulfate inhalers after a complaint from one patient that the inhaler leaked. Cipla US is voluntarily recalling the 90 mcg inhalers ...

Most people with asthma and other lung diseases have no idea that commonly prescribed inhalers are helping make the planet warmer. Each puff has about the same climate impact as driving a gas ...

But asthma, ironically, is also making climate change worse: Inhalers use chemicals that are as much as 3,600 times more powerful than CO2 at trapping heat in the atmosphere. GSK, the U.K.-based ...

WASHINGTON — In the wake of Earth Day and Drug Take Back Day, lots of people in the DMV are talking about how to dispose of their medications. But many of them are confused by one type in ...

So, it can be anywhere as low as nine for one inhaler and 48 for another, depending on how much propellant and which propellant is in there," she said. Other types, including dry-powder inhalers ...

U.S. regulators approved dozens of inhalers to treat asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease over a recent 15-year period, but a new study found that generic companies have only twice ...