The Food and Drug Administration is phasing out the albuterol inhalers that use chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, to propel the medicine into the lungs, ...
With 54 million prescriptions for albuterol annually, the change could cost the United States about $1.2 billion a year, Dr. Hendeles said. ...
Asthma inhalers dispense a prescription drug called albuterol, which quickly relaxes and opens airways during an asthma attack. ...
As of December 31, 2008, all asthma patients in the United States who use albuterol CFC inhalers must switch to an environmentally-friendly albuterol ...
More than 20 community health centers around the state are offering free albuterol asthma inhalers to their uninsured and underserved asthma patients ...
For years, albuterol metered-dose inhalers have used chemicals known as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) to propel the medicine into asthmatics' lungs, ...
Local Community Clinics Team Up to Distribute Albuterol Asthma Medications to Those Most in Need WASHINGTON, April 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Community ...
The US Food and Drug Administration has ordered that all CFC-propelled albuterol inhalers be phased out by the end of 2008. ...
Due to a federally-mandated ban on chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), asthma patients who use albuterol CFC inhalers must switch to an environmentally-friendly ...
Jada, now 2, was put on albuterol last year. The couple installed an air purifier in their home. And Michele Swift brings her daughter's nebulizer machine ...