United Health Group’s pharmacy benefit manager, Optum Rx, stopped covering Cole Schmidtknecht’s ‘life-changing’ inhaler, suit ...

Metered-dose inhalers (MDIs), dry powder inhalers (DPIs ... delivery via a metered-dose inhaler plus the more common spacer device.

The scripting code uses a LabVIEW Class-based design that allows you to easily add support for creating new custom device project templates. Branches prefixed with dev/ may be rebased, overwritten, or ...

Cole Schmidtknecht, 22, died from an asthma attack after his medication was no longer covered by his insurance company. Screengrab from Angrydadwi Pbm Reform Facebook page. The family of a ...

Inhalers generally expire 1 year after they ... They may provide information on properly disposing of the device. If the instructions aren’t clear, contact your pharmacist or local waste ...

You don’t need to use a spacer. Cons of using SMIs include: It’s harder to load the dose into the device compared to other devices. Read more about COPD drugs and inhalers for COPD.

The team also surveyed patients who use these inhalers, to find out how they used their devices. Of those with dose counter inhalers - which show how many puffs are left - 34 per cent of patients ...

Background screen use refers to having the television or other devices turned on in the background, even when the child is not watching them. These are part of stricter and clearer guidelines on ...

The concept is just one in a wave of new 'smart' devices which will be able to collect 'real-world' data and help patients manage their conditions better. Poor compliance in diseases such as COPD ...

Nebulizer use in the ED setting is associated with greater increases in heart rate than with the use of an MDI with spacer/holding chamber, suggesting that a larger systemically absorbed dose is ...

Not many people regularly carry three smartphones on them like I do, but besides covering mobile devices as an industry analyst, I’ve been a device reviewer for a long time — plus I just love ...

Inhaler have dropped a new single called ‘A Question Of You’ – check it out below. “You killed the morning / You called me up / Poured your heart out into my cup / Words of desire / Are ...