The inhaler you rely on for breathing may contribute to the planet's warming. However, there's a potential large-scale solution on the horizon. As Boston's WBUR reports, the little boot-shaped ...
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 ...
Most people with asthma and other lung diseases have no idea that commonly prescribed inhalers are helping make the planet warmer. Each puff has about the same climate impact as driving a gas-powered ...
Proceeds to advance frevecitinib, an inhaled pan-JAK inhibitor with the potential to treat the broad severe asthma population, through Phase 2 studies ...
Dr. Miguel Divo, a lung specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, sits in an exam room, across from one of his patients with asthma. Joel Rubinstein, a retired psychiatrist, is about to get a ...
What to do when a patient’s asthma control deteriorates after switching to a more environmentally friendly, or ‘greener’, ...
Millions of people depend on asthma inhalers, but most people don't know that using those inhalers creates a carbon footprint. That's according to a new study published in the medical journal JAMA ...
Asthma inhalers are critical for delivering small amounts of medication to people's lungs to improve breathing and help prevent asthma attacks, but those tiny puffs add up to a large environmental ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of a single inhaler with albuterol and corticosteroids as needed reduced exacerbations by 26%. As-needed ...
Some doctors are promoting propellant-free inhalers over puff inhalers that emit greenhouse gases. Climate change can exacerbate respiratory ills... Could better asthma inhalers help patients, and the ...