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 ...

Twelve years ago, Brendon McLarty, a 16-year-old from Perry, was at baseball practice. Brendon, described by his parents as "an All-American small town kid," loved baseball. He also had asthma. During ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Tailored metered-dose inhaler education was more effective compared with brief intervention for improving asthma ...

A phase IV noninferiority trial evaluating the difference between video-based and face-to-face inhaler education for patients with asthma did not find a difference in the endpoints that were analyzed.

The most important advantage of inhaled delivery of medicines is that they are delivered directly into the airways and lungs, resulting in higher local concentrations, lower systemic exposure and ...

Two of every five children hospitalized with asthma exacerbation make an error when using their inhaler, a prospective cross-sectional study shows. Missing a critical ...

Virtual and in-person education similarly improve inhaler technique and decrease healthcare utilization. Performance in both groups declined by the same amount following hospital discharge, suggesting ...

Lung deposition of radiolabeled Ventoline (chlorofluorocarbon salbutamol, GlaxoSmithKline) pressurized metered-dose inhaler administered via the three spacer devices was measured in an animal “infant” ...

Many children with asthma don't use their inhalers properly and don't get a full dose of medicine, researchers report. They evaluated inhaler use among 113 children between the ages of 2 and 16 who ...