Many patients misuse lifesaving inhalers and EpiPens, researchers find. — -- EpiPens and asthma inhalers have the potential to save lives with a simple jab or puff, but a small study published ...

Dr. Miguel Divo, a lung specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, sits in an exam room, across from one of his patients with asthma. Joel Rubinstein, a retired psychiatrist, is about to get a ...

Inhaled steroids, also called corticosteroids, reduce inflammation in the lungs. Not all inhaled medications contain steroids. They’re used to treat asthma and other respiratory conditions like ...

Asthma inhalers can be for quick relief or long-term control. Rescue inhalers work by relaxing your airway muscles to help ...

Inhalers are used to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), such as asthma, by delivering bronchodilator medication to the airway directly, without passing through the blood. COPD affects ...

One of the most widely-used asthma and breathing treatments for over 20 years is being taken off the shelves in 2024, potentially leaving patients, healthcare providers and insurers scrambling.

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. About 34 million Americans have a chronic ...

“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 ...

Inhaled steroids aren’t the go-to treatment for COPD, so your doctor will likely prescribe a bronchodilator, too. This is medicine in an inhaler that relaxes your airway muscles to help you breathe ...

Inhaler use is producing millions of metric tonnes of emissions and having a big impact on global warming, a new study has suggested. The findings, published in journal JAMA, found inhaler-related ...