Asthma treatment

http://www.healasthma.com – . McClatchy-Tribune Regional News (USA) – Inhaler alteration should help environment Nov. With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration mandating that inhalers for asthma medication make a transition to become more environmentally friendly, some patients are feeling a bit confused about what the change will mean. The shift won’t be in the medications themselves but in the substances used to propel them out of the devices, Springfield allergist Dr. Ingrid Alexander said.By Dec. , all albuterol inhalers that use a chlorofluorocarbon dispensing mechanism… . Prosecutors drop charges against paramedic DAYTON � Theft in office charges have been dropped against a Miamisburg firefighter/paramedic who was accused of stealing asthma medication and inhalers from two fire departments.Jack R. Ikerd Jr., , who also was a part-time firefighter in West Carrollton, was to go on trial this week. The Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office dropped the charges last week.”I respect the prosecutor’s office for what they did,”… . MondayMorning (USA) – Sepracor Inc’s (Marlborough MA) profit more than doubled as sales surged for an asthma inhaler free of an environmentally harmful gas. First-quarter net income rose to . million, or cents a share, from million, or cents, a year ago. Revenue jumped % to . million, below the . million of Wall Street’s estimates. Total pharmaceutical revenue rose % to . million, led by the Xopenex inhaler, made without banned air pollutants called chlorofluorocarbons. U.S. regulators barred the sale of older, generic albuterol inhalers which contain CFCs, starting in . … Health Tips … from UPI GUIDELINES FOR PREGNANT ASTHMATICS The U.S. National Asthma Education and Prevention Program advises pregnant women with asthma to adjust their medication to their condition. Medication should be stepped up in intensity if needed and stepped down when possible, depending on asthma severity, which changes during pregnancy for most women, notes the report, published in the Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology. Other recommendations include using the short-acting inhaled drug… . Newsday (Melville, NY) – Kids treated after taking asthma med Sixteen second-graders in a Bronx school were treated at local hospitals yesterday after a student brought in vials of her younger brother’s asthma medication and shared it with her classmates, school officials said.None of the children was seriously injured, said Margie Feinberg, a Department of Education spokeswoman.About a.m. yesterday at PS in the Bronx, a second-grade girl brought her brother’s expired Albuterol, an inhaled asthma medication, to… RECALLED INHALERS SUSPECTED IN DEATHS WASHINGTON — Seventeen people have died because of defective asthma inhalers made by Schering-Plough Corp., including five whose deaths might have been avoided with a quicker recall, a consumer advocacy group charged Thursday.The group, Public Citizen, cited government death reports in asking Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson to begin a criminal investigation of how Schering handled the recall of million inhalers.”There is evidence that the company… . (Walnut Creek, CA) – GROUP ALLEGES MORE DEATHS LINKED TO RECALLED INHALERS WASHINGTON Seventeen people have died because of defective asthma inhalers made by Schering-Plough Corp., including five whose deaths might have been avoided with a quicker recall, a consumer advocacy group charged Thursday.The group, Public Citizen, cited government death reports in asking Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson to begin a criminal investigation of how Schering handled the recall of million inhalers.”There is evidence that the company… . (Walnut Creek, CA) – GROUP ALLEGES MORE DEATHS LINKED TO RECALLED INHALERS WASHINGTON Seventeen people have died because of defective asthma inhalers made by Schering-Plough Corp., including five whose deaths might have been avoided with a quicker recall, a consumer advocacy group charged Thursday.The group, Public Citizen, cited government death reports in asking Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson to begin a criminal investigation of how Schering handled the recall of million inhalers.”There is evidence that the company… Consumer group contends deaths linked to recalled Schering asthma inhalers Seventeen people have died because of defective asthma inhalers made by Schering-Plough Corp., including five whose deaths might have been avoided with a quicker recall, a consumer advocacy group charged Thursday. The group, Public Citizen, cited government death reports in asking Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson to begin a criminal investigation of how Schering handled the recall of million inhalers.”There is evidence that the company not only… . (Walnut Creek, CA) – HEALTH UPDATE Pennsylvania to offer money to families of organ donors Pennsylvania will move ahead with a plan to offer to the families of organ donors, but the money can only cover incidental costs such as food, housing and transportation, the state health secretary said Wednesday.Last fall, a governor’s advisory committee recommended offering the money for funeral costs in hopes of encouraging organ donations because demand for transplants is surging.But amid concerns the plan… –