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Inhalers Harm the Planet and Your Patients. What to Do

Prescribing inhalers offers physicians a chance to impact climate change — but switching to greener options comes with ...

Inhalers for asthma patients produce significant amounts of greenhouse gases, say S’pore scientists

Each patient using inhalers with propellants in 2023 produced 140kg of CO2 emissions over a year. Read more at ...

Aptar Digital Health Announces FDA 510(k) Clearance for HeroTracker® Sense, a Connected Add-On Device for Metered-Dose Inhalers

Aptar Digital Health's HeroTracker® Sense has been granted by the U.S Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance as a ...

Inhalers produce carbon emissions equal to 530,000 cars on road annually, study finds

New JAMA study finds inhalers for asthma and COPD generate over 2 million metric tons of carbon emissions annually, ...
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Asthma, COPD Inhalers Contributing More Greenhouse Gases

Metered-dose inhaler propellants have contributed a rising amount to greenhouse gases in the U.S. Emissions per inhaler ...
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Common inhalers carry heavy climate cost, study finds

Metered-dose inhalers, or "puffers," were by far the most damaging, accounting for 98% of emissions. They use pressurized ...
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Asthma inhalers emit significant amount of greenhouse gases, study finds

Asthma inhalers are critical for delivering small amounts of medication to people's lungs to improve breathing and help ...

Climate pollution from inhalers has the impact of half a million cars per year, study finds

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to ...

Inhalers Produce More Than A Half-Million Cars' Worth of Carbon Emissions Annually

Inhalers generated more than 2 million metric tons of carbon emissions annually over the past decade, researchers reported ...