1.   Because of a broad new study, federal health officials have endorsed long-term use of corticosteroid inhalers for children with asthma.

2.   Corticosteroid inhalers were recommended, too, but Ms. Bosquez tended to try them and then quit.

3.   Flare-ups tend to be milder in people who use corticosteroid inhalers, but, he said, some patients hesitate, for fear of side effects from the steroids.

4.   The corticosteroid dry powder inhaler, marketed under the brand name Pulmicort Turbuhaler, is the first of its kind to be approved in the United States.

5.   Two well-publicized U.S. studies two years ago found they worked no better than the relatively new corticosteroid inhalers for severe asthmatics.