It has issued a reminder to sufferers of the importance of using their preventer (anti-inflammatory) inhaler regularly as ...

An urgent warning has been issued to asthma sufferers over the use of a vital treatment to relieve their symptoms. There are ...

Instead, health officials urge people living with asthma to use their anti-inflammatory "preventer" inhalers – also known as ...

Blue reliever inhalers act quickly to treat symptoms and attacks, and people need to carry them for if their asthma flares up.However, a new warning from the regulator, the UK's Medicines and ...

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is reminding patients with asthma of the importance of using ...

This reminder follows updates to product information and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) ...

Excessive use of reliever inhalers for asthma is linked to a significantly increased risk of dying from the disease, a new study revealed today. Researchers found that over-use of short acting ...

Experts from the University of Manchester have found that if a person with asthma takes their brown inhaler between 3pm and 4pm, they may see symptoms improve. The research, published in the ...

Poor treatment of asthma and COPD puts a huge burden on the NHS. For example, £1 billion is spent on asthma treatment in the UK each year and represents 60,000 to 65,000 hospital admissions. In ...

Pressurized metered-dose inhalers (pMDIs) for COPD and asthma contribute to climate change, and countries are moving away from their use.

MHRA issued a warning to healthcare professionals not to prescribe salbutamol or terbutaline inhalers without an inhaled ...