May 5th is World Asthma Day. This year's message is simple: make sure everyone with asthma can get an inhaler. This day is a great chance for us to spread awareness about asthma and help those who are ...

Inhalers that provide fast-acting treatment for people with certain respiratory conditions are contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, which can worsen both climate change and the conditions ...

Inhalers are the frontline treatment for asthma and COPD, but they come with a steep environmental cost, according to a new UCLA Health study - the largest to date quantifying inhaler-related ...

Options that reduce greenhouse gases face lower rates of coverage and more administrative ...

Inhalers have generated over 2 million metric tons of carbon emissions annually over the past decade. Metered-dose inhalers were the most harmful to the environment, accounting for 98% of emissions ...

How can inhalers contribute to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions? This is what a recent study published in JAMA hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the environmental impacts of inhalers ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Text messages addressing barriers to preventer inhaler use came from general practitioner practices. Patients ...

A study seeks to quantify the environmental impact of an unlikely source of climate pollution: inhaled medications for diseases such as asthma and COPD. They discovered that metered-dose ...

Asthma inhalers are critical for delivering small amounts of medication to people's lungs to improve breathing and help prevent asthma attacks, but those tiny puffs add up to a large environmental ...

Metered-dose inhaler propellants have contributed a rising amount to greenhouse gases in the U.S. Emissions per inhaler declined slightly over the past decade, but an increase in annual prescription ...

Inhaler device errors are common and may impact the effectiveness of the delivered drug. There is a paucity of up-to-date systematic reviews (SRs) or meta-analyses (MAs) of device errors in asthma and ...