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The drug of the day today is inhaled budesinide.

And brand name of this medication is pulma court.

And budesinide, I have covered this a little bit in the past.

I've covered systemic budesinide use, have covered this a little bit in the past. I've covered systemic

budesinide use, but I haven't specifically focused on just inhaled budesinide.

Now, it should be noted that it does come in other combinations. So Bres tree and simbacort are combinations of budesinide with other inhaled agents that are typically going to be used in asthma and COPD, for example.

But I do see a fair amount of pomacourt use on its own.

And again, those indications, asthma, COPD.

And with recent GINA guidelines, recommendations,

we're seeing these inhaled cortico steroids used more and more in acute exacerbations

and getting that steroid on board and obviously trying to

prevent re-exasperation and obviously help acutely with the situation as much as we can. But I'll talk

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