GPs have been advised to stop prescribing blue reliever inhalers alone for newly-diagnosed asthma. Instead, they should offer a low-dose combination of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) and formoterol to ...

“Be wary of [SABA] overuse. It is for when the patient has poor control of their symptoms, but should not be used for routine treatment,” said Holmes, a general practitioner (GP) partner at The Park ...

An urgent warning has been issued to asthma sufferers over the use of a vital treatment to relieve their symptoms. There are around 7.2 million people with the lung condition which affects the airways ...

As-needed use of a metered-dose inhaler with albuterol plus budesonide (Airsupra) lowered the risk of severe exacerbations compared with albuterol alone for people with normally mild asthma, the phase ...