Laser scientists' new research could improve the treatment of asthma sufferers

UK scientists have used a laser beam trap to examine how drug particles from asthma inhalers behave as they are projected through the air. Their findings could improve the effectiveness of inhalers for the over 5 million people in the UK suffering from asthma.....

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Laser trap tests asthma inhalers

Combination with Raman spectroscopy offers new insight into behavior of drugs on their way to the lung.
Scientists in the UK have combined two different optical techniques to test the effectiveness of asthma inhalers in a completely new way.....

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Innovative Treatments to Control and Identify Severe Asthma

Two new studies may have found new ways to control and identify severe asthma.
Reduce exacerbation rates

Exacerbations constitute the greatest immediate risk to asthmatic patients.[1] An observational trial at Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) showed that purifying the air in the breathing zone at night using a temperature-controlled laminar airflow (TLA) device, in addition to the patients' regular medication, significantly reduced the risk of exacerbations and the use of hospital resources in disease worsening.....

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