Metered Dose Inhaler

A small proportion of veterans who went from a metered-dose inhaler to a dry-powder inhaler had to revert to the metered-dose inhaler, according to a research letter published in JAMA Network Open.

Due to misleading claims in a sales aid for Breztri Aerosphere, a triple inhaled therapy for COPD, the FDA has issued a warning letter to its manufacturer, AstraZeneca.

Among new initiators of multiple-inhaler triple therapy for asthma, discontinuation was high, although approximately one-third of patients reinitiated their therapy, researchers reported at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

Inhalation parameters recorded by a digital asthma device can be used to indicate inhaler technique deterioration, which often wanes soon after patients receive training, researchers reported at the virtual CHEST Annual Meeting.

New data from the ETHOS trial showed that triple-combination therapy with budesonide, glycopyrronium and formoterol at two different budesonide doses reduced exacerbations in patients with moderate to very severe COPD, according to a manufacturer press release.