Editorial
CFC transition: the Emperor's new clothes. Each class of drug deserves a delivery system that meets its own requirements
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It is likely that two related but very different events during this coming year will form milestones in the history of aerosol therapy. One is likely to represent a genuine advance, ushering a new era in which aerosol delivery systems will be used to deliver potent systemically acting drugs via the lungs. The other will be the culmination of an enormously expensive exercise aimed at perpetuating inappropriate technology.
It seems probable that, during the later part of 2000, the FDA will
grant a licence to deliver insulin as an aerosol. The most exciting
aspect of this is that, for the first time in half a century, an
aerosol delivery system has been developed specifically to fulfil a
specific task.1 The biggest market in North America for
inhaled insulin is likely to be in the treatment of type II diabetes
and, although the potential for significant adverse events related to
swings in
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