Introduction: The incidence of asthma exacerbations in patients receiving salmeterol/fluticasone ... of Seretide™ 50µg/100µg, 50µg/250µg or 50µg/500µg twice daily from a Diskus™ inhaler ...

Mylan has become the first company to launch a generic version of GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) big-selling respiratory drug Seretide in the UK. Seretide (salmeterol xinafoate/fluticasone propionate ...

These data provide reassurance to prescribers that doubling the dose of Seretide™ for a short period of time is unlikely to result in any clinically relevant β 2-agonist- or inhaled ...

Red, Pink, Purple: These inhalers are often combination medications. For example, Advair is a purple disk that combines a steroid and a LABA (fluticasone and salmeterol). Symbicort is a red inhaler ...

Current practice is to offer people who are newly diagnosed with asthma a reliever inhaler (normally ... in-one combinations such as Seretide (salmeterol and fluticasone) are often given.

The transition occurred in nearly 75% of this study population, and researchers found that a prescription for a non-fluticasone-salmeterol dry-powder inhaler in this group was reported in 14.2% of ...

3 Department of Statistics (Research & Development), King’s College Hospital, London, UK Correspondence to: Dr W D C Man Respiratory Muscle Laboratory, Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine, ...

If there’s any doubt, get a new one. You may wonder whether it’s OK to use an expired inhaler. While it may be safe for you or your child, there are some important product warnings that you ...

A young man with severe asthma used to be able to get his inhaler for cheap, but after UnitedHealthcare's drug arm jacked up the price, he had to go without — and it ultimately killed him ...

We have compared the time course of action of fluticasone and budesonide, measuring response as change in the provocative dose of adenosine monophosphate causing a 20% fall in forced expiratory volume ...

An inhaler is a handheld device that delivers a puff or spray of these medicines straight into your lungs through a mouthpiece. Inhalers work faster than pills, which have to travel through your ...

30 in The BMJ. William B. Feldman, M.D., M.P.H., from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and colleagues compared the effectiveness and safety of budesonide-glycopyrrolate-formoterol, a ...