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Kathi MacNaughton

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posted 07/08/2009, comments (0)

What You Need to Know About Asthma Drug Black Box Warnings

Black box warnings are a type of labeling that the Federal Drug Administration (FDA, for short) requires pharmaceutical companies to use when a drug has possible side effects that are dangerous, rather than just annoying. In the past couple of years, several asthma medications have received black box warnings and now there are more. The... Read more Chevron

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James Thompson, MD

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posted 01/12/2009, comments (0)

Asthma: Advances in Medications this Decade

A cure for asthma is not likely. That's the bad news. The good news is that asthma deaths have decreased and advances in medications over this decade offer a chance for improvement in prevention and control of this disease that affects more than 20 million people in America. In this post I will discuss 5... Read more Chevron

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Kathi MacNaughton

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posted 01/07/2009, comments (7)

5 Ways to Save Money on Those Expensive New HFA Inhalers

It's 2009, and that means we are all being forced to switch officially to the HFA type of asthma inhaler. Many other posts here have dealt with the whys and wherefores of this regulatory change, and you can read all about them on our HFA Inhalers page. It's a fact that many people do not feel as though they're getting the same level of... Read more Chevron

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James Thompson, MD

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posted 12/15/2008, comments (0)

Advair and Symbicort: “Benefits Outweigh Risk” says an FDA Advisory Committee

Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) listened to presentations and comments from several members of an expert FDA advisory committee regarding the benefit-to-risk ratio of Long Acting Beta-agonist drugs (LABAs) -- namely Serevent (salmeterol), Foradil (formoterol), Advair (a combination of fluticasone and salmeterol) and Symbicort (a... Read more Chevron

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Rick Frea

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posted 12/02/2008, comments (0)

Confessions of an asthmatic in denial

One thing we really need to do as asthmatics is take our disease seriously. If you are diagnosed with it and your doctor prescribes preventative medicines, you should take them exactly as prescribed even when you are feeling well. Yet, since we asthmatics are humans who just want to be normal like everyone else, some of us get caught in... Read more Chevron

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