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posted 10/28/2008, comments (0)|
Combination Asthma Inhalers = Increased Convenience + Better Asthma Control
Asthma treatment is all about control. Control is the main goal of asthma treatment, as outlined in both the U.S. asthma management guidelines as well as the GINA World Asthma guidelines. Most people are able to achieve asthma control by taking 1 or 2 puffs of a controller medicine containing an inhaled steroid (such as Flovent and... Read more
posted 05/12/2008, comments (2)|
Asthma Medication Issues - How Do You Know What's Safe?
It feels lately like there's always some kind of "bad news" in the headlines about one asthma medication or another. Asthma is a disease that benefits greatly from being treated, but do asthma medications actually do more harm than good? That's the question you might be asking yourself. After all, just in the past year, we've heard about... Read more
posted 04/21/2008, comments (0)|
Prescription Drug Ads: Do They Do More Harm Than Good?
Read our experts' analysis in a special Issue section "Prescription-drug ads prompt nearly one-third of Americans to ask their doctors about an advertised medicine, and 82% of those who ask say their physicians recommended a prescription." This comes from Julie Appleby, a reporter with USA TODAY in a news article... Read more
posted 03/04/2008, comments (0)|
Understanding Black Box Warnings for Asthma Medicines
Some of the most effective asthma medicines are inhaled steroids, and the downside to this is that the word "steroid" has a bad reputation. But what many people don't understand is that the steroids that have caused that negative publicity are NOT the kind of steroids that asthma sufferers take. In fact, the steroids that people... Read more
posted 02/12/2008, comments (3)|
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