Dear Dr. Roach: In a recent column, you noted that many patients do not properly use their inhaled asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) medications, but you didn't tell us how to ...

One of the most widely-used asthma and breathing treatments for over 20 years is being taken off the shelves in 2024, potentially leaving patients, healthcare providers and insurers scrambling.

During an asthma check-up at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Joel Rubinstein gets a surprising pitch — for the planet, as well as his health. His pulmonologist, Dr. Miguel Divo, explains that ...

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 ...

In a recent column, you noted that many patients do not properly use their inhaled asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

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 ...

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 ...

Regarding who can use these inhalers, NHS guidelines state: "Most adults can use beclometasone inhalers for asthma or COPD.