This latest post comes straight from our CEO Bronwyn Harris. Bronwyn is a physician and also the mother of a child with asthma. Inhalers are awesome, but tricky! I take for granted the inhaler that I give my daughter, but when I take a moment I can appreciate what a great invention it is. For many other conditions, such as heart disease, you have to swallow a pill, and it goes through your blood stream — often spreading to the whole body — before it can have an effect on a specific location (e.g. heart or blood vessels). An inhaler allows medicine to go quickly and directly to your lungs where it is needed! This allows for quick action and less side effects overall. As tremendous as they are, inhalers do have an Achilles’ heel: they aren’t easy to take, especially for children. Recent research from a team at Rice University highlighted in a Wall Street