Doctors have been told to stop prescribing blue inhalers for asthma because they harm the planet. The NHS has estimated inhalers, which are prescribed 60 million times a year in England ...

Reliever inhalers, which are typically blue, are taken as required to relieve ... about using reliever inhalers to talk to their GP or asthma nurse.

A rescue inhaler is a type of inhaler that dispenses medication to relieve or stop the symptoms of an asthma attack. A rescue inhaler is a type of inhaled medication to help relieve the symptoms ...

Poor treatment of asthma and COPD puts a huge burden on the NHS. For example, £1 billion is spent on asthma treatment in the UK each year and represents 60,000 to 65,000 hospital admissions. In ...

For the 25 million Americans living with asthma, the fear of experiencing an attack without quick access to medication is all too real. While rescue inhalers remain the gold standard for treating ...

SAN DIEGO — Asthma afflicts 8.1% of school-age children in the United States and is a leading cause of missed school and work. Having stock inhalers available at schools prevents asthma-related ...

Porush created the first metered-dose inhaler (MDI) in just two months. By March 1956, the Food and Drug Administration had approved two new aerosol drugs for asthma, as well as Porush’s device ...

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Blue Cross Blue Shield -- which covers more than 10 million Texans -- intends to slash coverage for several asthma therapies injected into the bloodstream under the supervision of a physician. Many ...

In total, 43 patients were sampled from an asthma, allergy and immunology clinic in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The study analyzed perceived difficulty of affording inhaled asthma medications as either ...