In a bid to improve the pharma sector’s drive to cut down greenhouse emissions, several companies are advancing dry powder inhalers (DPIs) for respiratory conditions that are more eco-friendly than ...

Inhaled medications are the mainstay of pharmacological treatment for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma. This second article in a two-part series describes the procedure for ...

Miguel Divo shows his patient, Joel Rubinstein, a dry powder inhaler. It has a much lower carbon footprint than a traditional inhaler while being equally effective for many patients with asthma. Jesse ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Almost all of the estimated 1.15 MMT of CO 2 equivalent emissions in 2022 came from metered-dose inhalers. The ...

During an asthma check-up at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Joel Rubinstein gets a surprising pitch — for the planet, as well as his health. His pulmonologist, Dr. Miguel Divo, explains that ...

Asthma patients using dry powder inhalers are more likely to adherence to inhaled corticosteroid therapy than those using metered-dose inhalers, a new study has shown. Researchers studied 270 adults ...

Nagpur: The Indian Chest Society has advocated the use of dry powder inhaler (DPI) over pressurised metered dose inhalers (pMDIs) – the commonest device used for inhaled medicines – as the “latter ...

Miguel Divo, a lung specialist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, sits in an exam room across from Joel Rubinstein, who has asthma. Rubinstein, a retired psychiatrist, is about to get a ...

Also, some patients using dry powder inhalers worry that without the noise from the spray, they may not be receiving the proper dose. Other patients don’t like the taste powder inhalers can leave in ...