Researchers found that over-use of short acting reliever drugs known as beta agonists is associated with a higher risk of death from asthma. But regular use of inhaled steroids, known as longer ...

An albuterol inhaler is a quick-relief or rescue medication used to decrease ... make sure you get this on your asthma to-do list. Your goal should be not to need your rescue inhaler very often.

Britain’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence said the blue salbutamol inhalers ... that Australians with asthma are too reliant on the medication. “Salbutamol is just a short ...

The two inhaled treatments — Flovent HFA and Flovent Diskus, two of the most commonly used controller medications for asthma — have been discontinued by manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline.

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The advice said switching to dry powder inhalers will have a beneficial effect on climate change, however stressed that asthma sufferers should choose or stick with the treatment that worked best ...

According to a 2019 WHO report, a typical inhaler containing the propellant HFA-134a has a carbon footprint equivalent to a 180-mile car journey. [File, Standard] In the heart of Nairobi, 12-year ...