The patients affected are those covered in Illinois, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Montana, but not those with Medicare or Medicaid, the insurance giant says. Those five states are included in a ...

Doctors have been told to stop prescribing blue inhalers for asthma because they harm the planet. The NHS has estimated ...

advises the blue inhaler, over 17 million of which were prescribed in Britain last year, directly contributes to greenhouse ...

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

Blue Cross is requiring at-home injection for severe asthma drugs in five states, raising concerns among doctors and patients ...

Folks with asthma might better control their symptoms by precisely timing when they use their inhaler, a new study says.

A single daily preventer dose of inhaled corticosteroid (beclomethasone), taken mid afternoon, may be the best timing for effective asthma control as it suppresses the usual nocturnal worsening of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Asthma medications are usually taken by breathing them in using an inhaler or nebulizer. This allows the medicine to go directly into your lungs. When you have a flare-up, quick-relief medicines ...