When the Cost of His Asthma Inhaler Went Up $500, His Parents Claim He Couldn't Pay. Two Weeks Later He Was Dead at 22
Cole Schmidtknecht, 22, couldn't pay for his daily inhaler due to the “prohibitively expensive” price increase, but then he ...
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Short-Term Safety and Tolerability of Double-Dose Salmeterol/Fluticasone Propionate in Adult Asthmatic Patients
Introduction: The incidence of asthma exacerbations in patients receiving salmeterol/fluticasone propionate ... 500µg twice daily from a Diskus™ inhaler for a 4-week run-in period, dependent ...
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Metered-dose to dry-powder inhaler switch not often reversed in veterans
A small proportion of veterans who went from a metered-dose inhaler to a dry-powder inhaler had to revert to the metered-dose inhaler, according to a research letter published in JAMA Network ...
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Wisconsin man dies after inhaler cost jumps $500, according to family's lawsuit
22-year-old Cole Schmidtknecht suffered from asthma before his death. A young Wisconsin man died from an asthma attack after the price of his inhaler skyrocketed nearly $500, according to a ...