Discover the latest insights from the TOReTO study on COPD management: Dual bronchodilator therapy has been shown to reduce exacerbations, with varying efficacy between current and former smokers.

Background: In contrast to asthma, the indication for bronchodilators prior to bronchoscopy in patients with COPD has not been properly investigated. We therefore performed a randomized ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), an irreversible form of lung disease, is treated with prescription drugs, lifestyle changes, rehabilitation therapies, and surgery in certain cases. The ...

Formoterol (brand names Perforomist, Foradil) is a bronchodilator in a class of medications called long-acting beta agonists (LABAs). It is used to control wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing and ...

What is the landscape like for COPD treatments at the moment? Today you have two types of bronchodilators. Inhaled drugs that open the airways – beta 2 agonists and antimuscarinics – were ...

Current guidelines recommend use of one or more long-acting inhaled bronchodilators for patients with moderate, severe, or very severe COPD. However, the initial choice of long-acting inhaled ...

American Thoracic Society guidelines recommend that people with moderate or severe COPD who experience shortness of breath and/or exercise intolerance receive a combination of two different types of ...

In people with COPD, a four-week treatment with roflumilast reduced sputum neutrophils by 31 percent and eosinophils by 42 percent. The clinical significance of this is unknown, however. In the two ...

A combination of lifestyle changes, pulmonary rehab, and treatments like bronchodilators and corticosteroids can help COPD patients live as fully and well as possible.

The drug was administered twice-daily using a nebuliser as a chronic maintenance therapy for people with COPD in the ENHANCE ... and is thought to combine bronchodilator and anti-inflammatory ...