[caption id="attachment_55" align="alignleft" width="198" caption="Aespironics Inhaler"]
[/caption]A tiny breath-activated turbine inside the inhaler beats at a mesh packet containing the drug particles. This releases all the particles into the air at the same time.
This article this morning reminded me that I never put up any info on Nektar's product. Nektar is a company based just south of San Francisco. My brother works there as an senior engineer and they work to turn drugs into inhalable drugs. They worked on insulin a number of years ago and now they are doing Tobi Inhaled Powder (TIP) and Cipro (CIP). They have a new inhaler as well that they are trying to get through final phases of FDA. Their device is very tiny as well. I looked around for a picture on their website and couldn't find one. However, they have a nice video on the device here.
