While inhalers are lifesavers for asthma patients, they carry a hidden environmental cost. Dr Bwika explains, “Inhalers are just devices useful in the delivery of drugs into the body.

The NHS has estimated inhalers, which are prescribed 60 million ... GPs have now been told to inform patients that they are bad for the environment as their hydrofluorocarbon propellant, which ...

But few would suspect that a critical medical device for millions of people with asthma and COPD—asthma inhalers—could be ...

“The work we are doing with AstraZeneca developing a respiratory inhaler, with a new near-zero Global Warming Potential propellant, is tremendously important for both the environment and ...

Invited patients had 32% of days covered for maintenance inhalers, whereas control patients had a smaller proportion of days covered. Compared with control patients, invited patients spent less ...