Dear Dr. Roach: In a recent column, you noted that many patients do not properly use their inhaled asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) medications, but you didn't tell us how to ...
Several major manufacturing plants for the asthma and respiratory drug Albuterol have shut down, possibly worsening an already-flaring shortage of the medication that has forced hospitals to devise ...
Editor's note: Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez is a primary care pediatrician, director of pediatric telemedicine and assistant professor of pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Flovent, ...
LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- An ongoing shortage of a medicine commonly used to treat people with breathing problems is expected to get worse after a major supplier to US hospitals shut down last week, CNN ...
Starting Saturday, the cost of inhalers will fall for many Americans, as new out-of-pocket price caps go into effect for the asthma medications from AstraZeneca and Boehringer Ingelheim. Following ...
Regarding who can use these inhalers, NHS guidelines state: "Most adults can use beclometasone inhalers for asthma or COPD.