ATLANTA - Prices are rising sharply on many asthma inhalers just in time for spring allergy season and some insurance companies are not covering the higher costs, and many patients cannot afford the ...

Dr. Miguel Divo, a lung specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, sits in an exam room, across from one of his patients with asthma. Joel Rubinstein, a retired psychiatrist, is about to get a ...

The man's family later sued OptumRx and Walgreens, claiming they didn't offer alternatives after his regular inhaler's price ...

Most people with asthma and other lung diseases have no idea that commonly prescribed inhalers are helping make the planet warmer. Each puff has about the same climate impact as driving a gas-powered ...

The price of asthma medication has soared in the U.S. over the past decade and a half. The jump – in some cases from around a little over $10 to almost $100 for an inhaler – has meant that patients in ...

A pharmaceutical company has recalled six batches of albuterol sulfate inhalers after a complaint from one patient that the inhaler leaked. Cipla US is voluntarily recalling the 90 mcg inhalers that ...

President Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will speak with reporters Wednesday at the White House to highlight the capping of costs for inhalers by several pharmaceutical makers. Sanders joined ...

Telemedicine significantly improved quality of life and inhaler technique in advanced COPD patients compared to traditional follow-up care. The telemedicine group showed a significant reduction in ...

It was the respiratory therapist (RT) in charge of smoking cessation who first showed me a peak inspiratory flow meter with known resistance (PIFr). Dry-powder inhalers require inspiratory force for ...

AstraZeneca’s move on Monday to cap at $35 the out-of-pocket costs that patients pay for the company’s Symbicort inhaler speaks to the political and regulatory pressure coming to bear on manufacturers ...