Inhaler

The FDA’s Pulmonary-Allergy Drug Advisory Committee voted 16-1 in favor of approving the fixed-dose combination of budesonide and albuterol sulfate metered dose inhaler for patients with asthma aged 18 years and older.

Patients who used the Reliever Digihaler System had greater odds for better asthma control compared with patients who used standard inhalers, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Visits from a community health worker were associated with improved medication adherence and inhaler technique among urban children with asthma, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Evidence-based care informed by digital data collection led to a lower treatment burden among patients with severe, uncontrolled asthma, researchers reported at the European Respiratory Society International Congress.

Single maintenance and reliever therapy, also known as SMART or single-inhaler therapy, significantly reduces asthma exacerbation frequency and severity, according to a review published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

Tailored metered-dose inhaler education was more effective compared with brief intervention for improving asthma patients’ inhaler techniques, but those with low health literacy may benefit less, researchers reported in Respiratory Medicine.

Single-inhaler triple therapy with the extra-fine formulation of beclometasone, formoterol fumarate and glycopyrronium was cost-effective in adults with uncontrolled asthma, researchers reported in Respiratory Medicine.

In response to a research group’s proposal for over-the-counter availability of rescue inhalers for asthma, another group advised that the benefits and risks of this recommendation need consideration, according to a letter in JAMA.

Initiating single-inhaler triple therapy for COPD, compared with multiple-inhaler triple therapy, resulted in improved persistence, which led to reductions in mortality, exacerbations and health care resource use in patients with COPD.

Patients with asthma who began triple therapy with a single inhaler had better adherence than patients on triple therapy with multiple inhalers, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.