1 School of Kinesiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Rationale Salbutamol may affect lung function and exercise performance differently in individuals with and ...

Inhalers have been key to asthma management since the 1950s. The most common, salbutamol, comes in a familiar blue-colored inhaler (or "puffer"). This kind of "rescue inhaler" brings quick relief from ...

Children who presented to the ED with severe asthma were eligible to enter the study. Severe asthma was classified as having all four features of respiratory distress (wheezing, sternal retraction, ...

In both the Easyhaler DPI and Evohaler pMDI cohorts, 98.3% of patients with asthma recovered FEV1 to at least -10% of baseline after their last treatment post MC test. Investigators sought to ...

Nebulisers aid the treatment of respiratory diseases, including asthma, but they require electricity and are often cost-prohibitive for low- and middle-income countries. The mean improvement in peak ...

In the first randomised controlled trial to investigate the use of a 2-in-1 inhaler as the sole reliever therapy for children aged 5 to 15, an international team found the combined treatment to be ...

As little as three years ago, your friend would’ve been considered a cheat. Now, researchers might call him a dolt. Why would notoriously strict WADA downgrade these meds? Because several studies over ...

Asthma is an inflammatory disease typified by airway hyperreactivity and obstruction-producing airway resistance with a reduction in air flow. [1] The mainstay of treatment of acute asthma in children ...