Inhaled Drug Devices

I came across an article this morning on a new inhalation device from a company in Israel called Aespironics. It’s extremely thin and promises to be really cheap.  From their Website, they describe it as:

Aespironics Inhaler

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.