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 ...

For many years, the standard treatment for asthma was an inhaler with a medication called albuterol. Only if that wasn’t enough would additional medicines be added. If symptoms became especially bad, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Starting Saturday, the cost of inhalers will fall for many Americans, as new out-of-pocket price caps go into effect for the ...

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

In public schools that adopted a stock inhaler program, nurses and school staff responded positively to the program, according to data presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology ...

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 ...

Primatene Mist is the only OTC inhaler approved by the FDA for mild asthma in people 12 and older. Primatene Mist uses epinephrine, while albuterol uses albuterol sulfate, and they have different side ...

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, ...

BOSTON – Families have been left scrambling in recent months after a lifesaving asthma inhaler was taken off the market at the beginning of the year. Flovent HFA and Flovent Diskus, treatments that ...

Medics have warned that some asthma sufferers using blue inhalers could be putting their health at risk. More than seven million Brits are living with asthma, according to Asthma and Lung UK. An ...

Among young adults with asthma, inhalation of marijuana — by smoking, vaping, or both — was significantly associated with higher odds of asthma attacks within 1 year than no marijuana use.