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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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posted 01/16/2009, comments (0)

FDA Update on Singulair Concludes No Association with Suicide or Suicidal behavior

The FDA issued an update on 1/13/09 regarding their saftey review of Singulair. They stated that they reviewed data from 41 placebo-controlled trials with almost 18,000 patients and there was one adult patient (o.o1%) out of 9929 patients treated with Singulair who had suicidal thoughts and there were NO suicides. This appears to be... 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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Fred Little

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posted 11/24/2008, comment (1)

The Economic Crisis May Hit Asthmatics Hard

How will asthma care and health be affected by the economy?It is clear that we are in the midst of difficult economic times. Some of us can no longer bear to even pay attention to the changes in the stock market and the effect it is having on our savings. More importantly, the economic slowdown will cause job losses, and with them, loss of health... Read more Chevron

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posted 09/02/2008, comments (2)

Singulair IS NOT Linked to Suicide, researchers say

Earlier this year many Singulair users got a scare when the FDA announced it was investigating the asthma drug for links to suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts. But researchers for the American Lung Association Tuesday announced that they've found no link between the asthma drug Singulair and an increased risk of suicide and... Read more Chevron

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