9 research teams to tackle new, existing threats to lung health

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Ottawa – The air we breathe has a significant impact on the health and wellness of people in Canada and around the world. Lung health can be affected by many factors such as cigarette smoking, e-cigarettes, cannabis inhalation, viral infections, and environmental influences like wildfires and air pollution. Threats to lung health are inequitable, disproportionately affecting certain groups and communities. …

Flovent inhalers to be stopped

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London – This year, users of the well-known corticosteroid inhalers Flovent HFA or Flovent Diskus will have to look for a new medicine to manage their asthma as GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the company that makes them has decided to stop its production. It said they would instead create an approved generic version using the same device design and composition. Doctors are …