GlaxoSmithKline has added three more lots of its Ventolin inhalers to its recent recall, bringing the total to more than 1.1 million units. According to a recent FDA Enforcement Report, the drugmaker ...
With sales of its respiratory drugs doing well, GlaxoSmithKline has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars to expand manufacturing of several kinds of inhalers. But a glitch at one of its ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. patients who use certain asthma inhalers made with ozone-depleting propellants should talk to their doctors now about alternatives ahead of a ban that starts in January, ...
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 ...
Reviewers examine the consequences of switching to hydrofluoroalkane, which is replacing chlorofluorocarbon, or CFC, as a key ingredient in albuterol inhalers designed to relieve asthma. The FDA has ...
HealthDay News — The cost of albuterol inhalers has risen dramatically as a result of a 2008 federal ban on asthma inhalers containing chlorofluorocarbons, a substance known to contribute to the ...
As hospitals give more and more COVID-19 patients albuterol to help them breathe, people with asthma may have a hard time getting an inhaler. The American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology ...
Dr. Russell Saunders is pissed off: As I’m sure comes as no surprise, I prescribe a lot of medications….One medication I prescribe with great frequency is albuterol, a bronchodilator. Asthma is a very ...