Asthma + Lung UK says more needs to be done to prevent the overuse of inhalers.

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 ...

Glaxo Smith Kline’s decision to discontinue a popular children’s asthma inhaler, Flovent, more than two years ago has caused ...

After GSK replaced a popular asthma inhaler with an identical product at a higher price, families reported substantial ...

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, ...

A major pharmaceutical company ended price hikes and monopoly protection over a life-saving asthma inhaler following two years of pressure from U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H. Without warning in ...

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 ...

Inhalers and nebulizers are necessary when managing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Both are designed to deliver medication directly to the lungs, which helps in reducing symptoms, ...

In 2024, doctors and parents scrambled to find an affordable asthma inhaler after drugmaker GSK pulled the popular Flovent off the market. A senator launched an investigation to find out what happened ...