GlaxoSmithKline "deliberately" discontinued a widely-used asthma medication in order to reap profits and families suffered, ...

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 ...

A small proportion of veterans who went from a metered-dose inhaler to a dry-powder inhaler had to revert to the metered-dose ...

A young Wisconsin man died from an asthma attack after the price of his inhaler skyrocketed nearly $500, according to a ...

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 ...

Interventions: Patients entered a 4-week, open run-in period, receiving fluticasone propionate 50µg twice daily via a Diskus™ inhalation device ... symptoms and use of relief medication ...

Many manufacturers use consistent colors on the inhaler ... medications in yellow inhalers are reliever or rescue inhalers. Fluticasone is one common medication found in orange or yellow inhalers.

That cost changed last year when OptumRx, a subsidiary of United Health Group, stopped coverage for the inhaler Schidtknecht used for a decade, the lawsuit alleges. On Jan. 10, 2024, Schmidtknecht ...

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.