Asthma treatment

http://www.healasthma.com – . (New Jersey) – AEROSOL ASTHMA INHALERS RECALLED A subsidiary of Madison-based Schering-Plough is recalling a batch of asthma inhalers after a complaint from a user who bought one that was empty. Warrick Pharmaceuticals announced Thursday it is voluntarily recalling a single lot of albuterol metered-dose inhaler aerosol g, a prescription medication for the treatment of asthma. The recall affects lot No. -BBS- , which was distributed by Warrick between late and early . The inhalers have an expiration date of …. . The Arizona Daily Star – CFC-free inhaler OK’d Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. won approval from the Food and Drug Administration for the first asthma drug inhaler of its type that’s free of a propellant thought to harm the ozone layer. M’s inhaler delivers the drug albuterol without using chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs. Schering-Plough Corp. will market the inhaler in the United States under the brand name Proventil HFA…. . PEOPLE People President elected GRAFTON – Robert Caldwell, president of Realty Inspection Services Inc., George Hill Road, has been elected president of the New England Chapter of the American Society of Home Inspectors.Caldwell was previously vice president of the Concord, N.H.-based chapter and chairman of its education committee. The organization is one of chapters of the American Society of Home Inspectors, based in Arlington, Ill.Local Asthma drug trial MARLBORO -… Asthma is a symptom of Churg-Strauss syndrome DEAR DR. GOTT I was diagnosed with eosinophilic pneumonia about years ago. I was put on a high dose of prednisone and then was tapered off it. I now have asthma and am on prednisone again as well as an albuterol inhaler. Whenever I have an asthma attack, my doctor increases the prednisone dose and then tapers me back down. My pulmonologist (lung doctor) now tells me I have Churg-Strauss; however, I don�t have any symptoms of it. I have had three blood tests taken, but… Asthma a symptom of Churg-Strauss DEAR DR. GOTT I was diagnosed with eosinophilic pneumonia about years ago. I was put on a high dose of prednisone and then was tapered off it. I now have asthma and am on prednisone again as well as an albuterol inhaler. Whenever I have an asthma attack, my doctor increases the prednisone dose and then tapers me back down.My pulmonologist (lung doctor ) now tells me I have Churg-Strauss ; however, I don�t have any symptoms of it. I have had three blood tests taken, but all… . New asthma inhalers are ozone-friendly Question Many people who have asthma be noticing changes in their inhalers. What are these changes?Answer The medicine itself is not going to change. Most of the issue is about these quick-acting rescue inhalers, which are mostly Albuterol. They come in a canister, and to deliver the medicine out of the canister, they need a propellant. Before this year, they were using chlorofluorocarbons, which when they get into the upper atmosphere, eat up ozone. There’s quite a few… . Vanceril ” on Dec. , forcing patients still using the old-fashioned kind to make a pricey and even confusing switch.The medicine inside these rescue inhalers – the albuterol that quickly opens airways during an asthma attack – isn’t changing. But the chemicals used to puff that drug into your lungs are.No more chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, that damage Earth’s protective ozone layer. By… ASTHMA INHALERS HERE’S THE LATEST Asthma inhalers that contain environment-harming chemicals will be phased out at year’s end — and the government is urging patients not to wait to switch to newer alternatives. Patients use inhalers that dispense airway-relaxing albuterol during asthma attacks. BACKGROUND Most inhalers use chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, which are being phased out because they damage the Earth’s protective ozone layer. … . (Lancaster, PA) – A Multidrug therapy should be revised DEAR DR. GOTT I would like your opinion about the drugs my -year-old daughter has been prescribed. These include Xenical, Lipitor, Paxil, thyroxine, Axcid, Protonix, Neurontin, Cardizem, fish oil, Serevent, Flovent and Albuterol. This seems like a lot to me. Are all these drugs compatible with one another?DEAR READER I don�t know, but I�d certainly be suspicious that the interactions between these prescriptions could cause… . Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News – Clearwater, Fla., Pharmacy Runs Afoul of Missouri Regulators Apr. A Kansas City pharmacy owned by Lincare Holdings Inc. of Clearwater ran into trouble with Missouri regulators last month after it mishandled the recall of contaminated drugs, blocked a state inspector from entering its facility and destroyed records.The pharmacy, Med Home, compounds respiratory therapy drugs for Lincare patients with such chronic pulmonary diseases as emphysema and asthma. Lincare, which had revenues of million in provides home delivery of oxygen and… –