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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 moreChevron
posted 07/08/2009, comments (0)|
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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 moreChevron
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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 moreChevron
posted 02/12/2008, comments (3)|
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