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Use of corticosteroid inhalers for treating asthma and COPD to increase, market study shows

Published in Drug Law Weekly, February 6th, 2007

Decision Resources, a research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that the use of corticosteroid inhalers will increase for the treatment of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

"Despite their criticisms of primary care physicians' use of inhaled corticosteroids, 39% of pulmonologists forecast that they will increase their use of these agents for treating COPD, presumably in large part because of the results of the TORCH study," said Decision Resources analyst Madhuri Borde, PhD.

"For the treatment of asthma, physicians and experts concur that, over the next 2 years, they will likely...

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Source: Drug Law Weekly (2007-02-06)

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