The carbon footprint of blue inhalers is being compared to a lengthy car trip in advice released to asthma patients as British doctors are told to switch out the sprays for a more effective treatment.

Asthma inhalers are hand-held devices that allow you to inhale a dose of medication to treat asthma symptoms. There are many types of asthma inhalers. They differ in whether they're used for quick ...

Medications that target inflammation, such as immunotherapy and steroids, treat allergic asthma, a common type of asthma. Identifying triggers and avoiding exposure to substances that exacerbate ...

A peak flow meter is a simple, small, hand-held tool that can help you maintain control of asthma by providing a measurement of how well air moves out of the lungs. After blowing into the device, the ...

GPs have been advised to stop prescribing blue reliever inhalers alone for newly-diagnosed asthma. Instead, they should offer a low-dose combination of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) and formoterol to ...

Researchers found that a single daily preventive dose of inhaled corticosteroid is best taken at mid-afternoon for effective asthma control. Photo by coltsfan/Pixabay Folks with asthma might better ...

A single daily preventer dose of inhaled corticosteroid (beclomethasone), taken mid afternoon, may be the best timing for effective asthma control as it suppresses the usual nocturnal worsening of ...

Mauli Desai, MD, Allergist & Immunologist, and David Rosenstreich, MD, Professor of Allergy & Immunology, Microbiology & Immunology, and Otorhinolaryngology, for Montefiore Einstein Anyone who’s ever ...

A groundbreaking international study has shown that a 2-in-1 budesonide-formoterol inhaler is far more effective than the standard salbutamol inhaler in children with mild asthma, cutting attacks by ...

GlaxoSmithKline is recalling more than 590,000 albuterol inhalers. Three lots of Ventolin HFA 200D inhalers have been voluntarily recalled due to potential issues with the delivery system, a spokesman ...

Findings from a trial comparing the real-world effectiveness of asthma inhalers could reshape how children with asthma are treated. In the first randomized controlled trial to investigate the use of a ...

PARIS — Pregnancy is a period of asthma instability; it entails an increased risk for exacerbations. While therapeutic de-escalation, if not the outright cessation of maintenance treatment, is common, ...