United Health Group’s pharmacy benefit manager, Optum Rx, stopped covering Cole Schmidtknecht’s ‘life-changing’ inhaler, suit ...

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes on Thursday sued drug producer GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for harm done to asthma patients by discontinuing a long-time product.

Arizona is suing a major drug maker, accusing it of gaming the system by simply renaming an asthma drug to increase its ...

Cole Schmidtknecht, 22, couldn't pay for his daily inhaler due to the “prohibitively expensive” price increase, but then he ...

Shanon and William Schmidtknecht, of Poynette, filed their lawsuit in federal court in Milwaukee on Jan. 21, a year to the ...

Shanon and William Schmidtknecht filed the federal lawsuit on Jan. 21, a year after the death of their 22-year-old son, Cole.

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“Over the next five days, Schmidtknecht repeatedly struggled to breathe, relying solely on his old ‘rescue’ (emergency) inhaler to limit his symptoms, because he did not have a preventative ...

Inhalers generally expire 1 year after they’re issued, but depending on how they’re stored, they may be good for months after that. If there’s any doubt, get a new one. You may wonder ...

Inhalers for COPD provide steroids, bronchodilators, or combination drugs. The three types differ in the mechanism by which the medication is inhaled and have different instructions for use. If ...

MILLIONS of Brits with asthma are potentially risking their lives by not using their inhaler properly, UK experts have warned The UK has one worst death rates from the lung condition in Europe ...

Increment in HR vs initial % 12.6 ± 10.8 Increment in HR from hospital discharge, % 87.9 ± 32.1 Decrement in DBP vs initial, % 43.9 ± 15.2 Decrement in DBP vs hospital discharge, % 53.5 ± 12.0 ...