Struggling with your asthma medicine? An asthma inhaler works most effectively if you deliver your medication slowly, so this is where a spacer device can be useful to help you achieve this goal. Many ...

A video-based teach-to-goal (TTG) intervention was able to improve inhaler technique over time among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma, according to a randomized ...

Summer temperatures, humidity and allergies are triggers for people diagnosed with asthma. These triggers can range from being a nuisance to being life-threatening. Dr. Jacqueline Squire, a Mayo ...

When an asthma attack occurs, many sufferers use a device — a “spacer” — to increase the chances that rescue medicine travels from an inhaler all the way down to the airways where it is needed. A new ...

Portable mesh nebulizers make breathing treatment simpler when life (or symptoms) gets messy. Unlike inhalers that demand ...

Inhalers have been key to asthma management since the 1950s. The most common, salbutamol, comes in a familiar blue-colored inhaler (or "puffer"). This kind of "rescue inhaler" brings quick relief from ...

A single combined-drug inhaler used as needed protects adults with mild asthma from worsening illness and hospital stays, a recent commentary on Cochrane systematic review data reports. But long-term ...

For asthma sufferers, the rush for breathing relief often makes for incorrect use of inhalers. The wrong technique can make the disease worse in the long run. During an asthma attack, sufferers still ...

As AstraZeneca fights to defend its aging two-drug inhaler Symbicort against generics, the company has a new approval to bolster its respiratory business. Wednesday, the British drugmaker said the FDA ...