Inhaled steroids aren’t the go-to treatment for COPD, so your doctor will likely prescribe a bronchodilator, too. This is medicine in an inhaler that relaxes your airway muscles to help you breathe ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) medications can help you breathe more easily and improve your quality of life. You take some types every day, but you use others for quick relief only when ...

Breathing devices, including inhalers, nebulizers, and larger devices, can help improve your breathing with COPD. Which device a doctor recommends can depend on your symptoms. If you’re living with ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) treatments involving inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) were associated with a greater risk for fractures, a meta-analysis of several dozen randomized trials ...

In this interview, Fernando Martinez, MD, MS, chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, discusses the 2023 Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive ...

April 21, 2011 — For patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), prior use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) is associated with a lower risk for short-term mortality and lower use of ...

Nov. 26 -- TUESDAY, Nov. 25 (HealthDay News) -- A new review of existing data confirms that some common inhalers don't boost the life spans of people with the lung disease known as chronic obstructive ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People with the lung ailment chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are more likely to get pneumonia if they use inhaled corticosteroid drugs and doctors should be more cautious ...

Individuals relying on beclometasone inhalers for asthma or related respiratory ailments may wish to familiarise themselves with NHS recommendations surrounding this treatment. These steroid-based ...

A systematic Cochrane review evaluated 47 randomized placebo-controlled trials of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) involving 13,139 patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) ...