On World Asthma Day, doctors remind us that even the best medicine fails if the inhaler isn't used correctly. Here's a doctor-backed guide to get it right ...

Discover the errors undermining your asthma control, from improper inhaler technique to missing signs. These fixable mistakes ...

These inhalers help prevent flares and keep symptoms from getting worse. They're called control inhalers because they have medicine that controls inflammation. Use yours as often as your doctor ...

Also, some expect to feel an effect when they shouldn't with the right technique. With a metered dose inhaler, if you inhale too quickly, it hits the back of the throat, you feel it and you get ...

However, despite this education, more than one in 10 inhalers continued to be used suboptimally, either due to an inability to generate sufficient inspiratory effort or because the inhaler was ...

The characteristics of an ideal inhaler are based around the design ... is fairly consistent irrespective of the inhalation technique used by patients of all age groups. Clinical studies have ...

A new augmented reality app aims to help kids improve their asthma inhaler technique in a bid to reduce emergency hospital admissions. The app, called MySpira, is available on iTunes and Google ...

Some of the benefits of the inhaler voiced by parents in the survey included – it was enjoyable, it made their child calmer and helped in their inhalation technique – and that it would be useful at ...

He added that proper technique—such as lifting the chin ... They highlighted other common mistakes, such as not shaking metered-dose inhalers before use, failing to rinse the mouth after using ...

Porush created the first metered-dose inhaler (MDI) in just two months. By March 1956, the Food and Drug Administration had approved two new aerosol drugs for asthma, as well as Porush’s device ...