People using the popular corticosteroid inhalers Flovent HFA or Flovent Diskus to treat their asthma will need to switch to a new product in 2024. Flovent manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline announced in ...

Excessive use of reliever inhalers for asthma is linked to a significantly increased risk of dying from the disease, a new study revealed today. Researchers found that over-use of short acting ...

While these inhalers are critically important to saving lives and making it easier to breathe, a Stanford-led study is showing that there are easier, less polluting options. For Shelbi Inan ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Philip Morris International has agreed to sell its Vectura asthma inhaler maker for only a third of what it ...

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Pharmaceutical companies are looking to change that with lower-emitting inhalers that they plan to roll out by the end of the decade. Metered-dose inhalers - pressurized devices that release a ...

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Doctors could be taught to limit the use of traditional asthma inhalers due to their environmental impact. This initiative, led by the University of Glasgow and coordinated by the European ...

A new drug could prevent this, instead of managing the consequences, which is what existing drugs and inhalers already do. According to the NHS website, asthma is a lung condition that interferes ...

Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood and, in the latter part of the 20th century, reached epidemic proportions. Asthma is generally believed to result from gene-environment ...

Oct. 10, 2024 — The risk of asthma in the child can be reduced by nearly half if the mother engages in active physical exercise at least three times a week during pregnancy, compared to a child ...

In some cases, their lips, earlobes and nail beds may turn greyish-blue because there isn’t enough oxygen in their body. Inhalers can come in many different sizes and shapes. Inhalers to relieve ...