Purpose. Special considerations in the selection of medication inhaler devices for elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the ambulatory care setting are reviewed.
Explore strategies for controlling COPD and improving health, with a focus on management and lifestyle changes.
Certain Medicare plans typically cover at least part of the cost of inhalers for COPD. There are also several ways to further save on costs.
a once-daily dry powder inhaler for treatment of COPD in routine clinical practice in a new-user, 1:1 propensity score-matched cohort study. The study included 20,388 propensity score-matched ...
or the drugs themselves. The jury is still out because budesonide-containing dry-powder inhalers for COPD are not on the U.S. market -- and therefore not available for a comparison of dry-powder ...
Tezepelumab did not significantly decrease moderate or severe COPD exacerbations compared with placebo, the COURSE trial found.
Patients with COPD had slightly more major adverse cardiovascular events after initiating single-inhaler triple therapy vs a LABA-ICS inhaler.
BLVR is designed for patients with severe or very severe COPD who continue to experience significant shortness of breath despite other medical therapy, including inhalers, medications, and ...
AstraZeneca’s respiratory and immunology portfolio is driving significant growth, with R&I assets forecasted to account for ...