Asthma treatment

http://www.healasthma.com – . Ozone danger prompts shortage of asthma drug Efforts to protect the environment have contributed to shortages of Albuterol, one of the most common medications to control asthma. The inhaled drug is harder to find because of a Food and Drug Administration rule phasing out inhalers that contain chlorofluorocarbons by Dec. , . New, ozone-friendly versions of Albuterol have been developed. But they cost more and often aren’t covered by health plans.A RISK WITH ESTROGEN, BUT . . .Estrogen pills raise older… . FD (FAIR DISCLOSURE) WIRE – Q Ivax Earnings Conference Call – Final OPERATOR Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the First Quarter Earning’s Conference Call. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. And now I would like to turn the conference over to our host, Dr. Phillip Frost. Please go ahead. DR. PHILLIP FROST, CHAIRMAN & CEO, IVAX CORPORATION Good morning everyone. I’m Phillip Frost, Chairman… . FD (FAIR DISCLOSURE) WIRE – Event Brief of Q Ivax Earnings Conference Call – Final CORPORATE PARTICIPANTS . Dr. Phillip Frost, IVAX Corporation, Chairman & CEO . David Malina, IVAX Corporation, Director – IR . Neil Flanzraich, IVAX Corporation, Vice Chairman & President . Tom Beier, IVAX Corporation, SVP Finance & CFO OVERVIEW IVX reported Q net revenues of m and gross profit of . m. Q net income was . m and EPS was . . IVX expects earnings to be between the middle to upper end of the . – . … Asthma control “Keep the live round out of the chamber” TAYLORVILLE – showers might bring flowers, but they also usher in spring, one of the two seasons known for asthmatic flare-ups. For the one in six Americans suffering from the disease, an attack can cause shortness of breath, a barking cough, or wheezing.In order for patients to maintain effective asthma control, it is critical, according to local pulmonologist M.B. Prabhu, for them to understand the nature of their disease.”Asthma is a disease of the air tubes,… . LONG-TIME INHALER USE HURTS LUNGS An ingredient found in some inhalers used to treat asthma actually acts to worsen inflammation of the lungs over time, researchers have found.The discovery, presented Tuesday before the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology in San Francisco, helps explain why long-term use of inhalers has proved counter-productive for some patients.The drug albuterol, one of a class of medicines called beta-agonists, has been widely prescribed for asthma.But… . The Washington Times – Asthma medication can help athletes gain competitive edge Seventeen percent of the United States’ Olympic team in stated that they take asthma medication, compared to percent of the team, according to the Nov. issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.Asthma can interfere with your ability to compete in sports by blocking the tubes that carry air from your lungs, thus tiring you sooner.Athletic competition can be a powerful cause of asthma attacks because exercise can cause you to breathe hard and… RECALL Asthma drug A Massachusetts generic drug company is recalling millions of vials of an inhalation solution widely used by asthma patients and others with breathing problems. Copley Pharmaceutical Inc. said some of its -milliliter Albuterol Sulfate Inhalation Solution was contaminated by microbial organisms. It poses risks of serious infection to people with compromised immune systems, the company said. Albuterol is a bronchodilator medication that Copley sells under its own name and other… . New asthma inhalers out of reach for some I am sitting here in my living room, holding my banned, ozone destroying Albuterol inhaler, wondering how many butterflies, hummingbirds and other delicate creatures that I have harmed every time that I used this medicine to breathe. If anyone had told me that this small “puffer” was destroying the Earth, I never would have used it in the first place.Here I was thinking that the worst things for the environment were issues such as car emissions, that through… . Caledonian-Record, The FDA Asthma Patients Need New Inhalers WASHINGTON – Old-fashioned asthma inhalers that contain environment-harming chemicals will no longer be sold at year’s end � and the government is urging patients not to wait until the last minute to switch to newer alternatives.Patients use inhalers to dispense airway-relaxing albuterol during asthma attacks.Chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, once were widely used to propel the drug into the lungs. But CFC-containing consumer products are being… Inhalers could cost asthmatics ELGIN – Elgin Center Pharmacy’s Sonal Patel had about four dozen of the inhalers left.The supply of albuterol inhalers using a propellant called chlorofluorocarbon has been dwindling as a federal deadline banning the products approaches. Asthma patients have begun switching from that generic inhaler – using the ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbon – to an environmentally safe inhaler, but it comes at a higher cost that most insurance companies are not covering, experts say…. –