Asthma treatment

New pill helps asthmatics breathe easy The first new class of asthma drugs in Canada in 20 years has been introduced in time for the cold weather that’s especially hard on people with the chronic lung disease. Accolate is the only pill-form anti-inflammatory available here that helps mild to moderate asthmatics breathe easier. It was recently approved by Health Canada after clinical trials involving 4, 000 patients worldwide, researchers said Thursday. “This medical advance places us on a threshold of ….. Newstex Blogs (USA) – June 15, 2009 New Precautions on Asthma Meds The FDA has requested that a new precaution be added to the drug prescribing information for some popular asthma medications. The medicines are known as leukotriene modifiers and include • Singulair (montelukast) • Accolate (zafirlukast) • Zyflo and Zyflo CR (zileuton) According to the FDA, neuropsychiatric events have been reported in some …..

Perseverance Is Key to a Good Life With Asthma Until about three years ago, Dawn Bosquez, a 30-year-old resident of Denver, was getting most of her medical care for asthma in emergency rooms. About once a month, she would wake up unable to breathe and would frantically call an ambulance or friend to rush her to the hospital, where she would be given oxygen and inhaled medications to bring the attack under control. Then, a doctor would prescribe a short course or “burst” of prednisone tablets

, Dr Reddy’s Labs (DRL) has been sued by US major, AstraZeneca, following DRL’s paragraph IV abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) submission for marketing Accolate, the US firms’ leading drug used to treat asthma. In a suit filed on June 27 in the district court ….