Several major manufacturing plants for the asthma and respiratory drug Albuterol have shut down, possibly worsening an already-flaring shortage of the medication that has forced hospitals to devise ...

Primatene Mist is the only OTC inhaler approved by the FDA for mild asthma in people 12 and older. Primatene Mist uses epinephrine, while albuterol uses albuterol sulfate, and they have different side ...

Move comes 2 years after controversial exit of brand-name product ...

New research from National Jewish Health suggests that long-acting beta-agonists (LABAs), commonly used in combination asthma ...

LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- An ongoing shortage of a medicine commonly used to treat people with breathing problems is expected to get worse after a major supplier to US hospitals shut down last week, CNN ...

A popular corticosteroid inhaler used to treat asthma and other conditions is being discontinued, and despite generic versions now available, health experts are warning patients to plan ahead for ...

BOSTON – Families have been left scrambling in recent months after a lifesaving asthma inhaler was taken off the market at the beginning of the year. Flovent HFA and Flovent Diskus, treatments that ...