Seven out of 10 of the 50 million inhalers prescribed in England in 2017 were metered-dose inhalers.
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Researchers found that the carbon footprints of metered-dose inhalers were up to 37 times those of dry powder inhalers.
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Alternative "greener" treatments, such as dry powder inhalers and aqueous mist inhalers, are available, experts said in the study published in BMJ Open.
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By swapping metered-dose inhalers for dry powder inhalers, users could reduce their carbon emissions equivalent to reducing their meat consumption or recycling, researchers said Wednesday.
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The company said it had won two new major contracts to make inhalers and prefillable syringes but lost a smaller order for inhalers as a result of restructuring at a Swiss plant.
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Makers of lung treatments are racing to make smart inhalers.
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She has asthma, and the staff carried inhalers for her.
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I rounded up my half-empty inhalers, hoping they hadn't expired.
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Without this help, just 40 percent of patients operated inhalers properly.
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Finally, the pink salt inhalers are likely useless for asthma treatment.
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Meanwhile, the Zebulon plant is still making the inhalers, Molina said.
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Medicare's rules for pills, inhalers and so on are equally nonsensical.
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Her doctor prescribed her drugs and inhalers, but nothing seemed to help.
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But Krug pointed out there is no need to start hoarding inhalers.
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"We don't take away people's insulin or their asthma inhalers," she said.
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The inhalers (2 boxes)were filled as written and charged under 1 copy.
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Customer Service told me that was the price for 2 inhalers (1 copay).
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Medications like Tylenol and the contents of asthma inhalers are especially toxic to pets.
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Ellison saw that kids in our community had an unusually high number of inhalers.
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This is how medicines like asthma inhalers are able to penetrate into the lungs.
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It expects to start filing for U.S. approval of inhalers in a year, he added.
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Breath actuated inhalers automatically release a spray of medication when the person begins to inhale.
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GSK makes Ventolin inhalers, which are one type of MDI that contain the drug albuterol.
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The association has also offered training or supplies for CPR, epinephrine injectors and albuterol inhalers.
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NBC News searched Facebook and found postings to trade EpiPens, asthma inhalers, and other prescription medications.
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One of his courses, cardiac rehabilitation, lacked essential materials such as inhalers and carbon dioxide masks.
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With insurance, the inhalers can cost as little as $5 and between $30-$60 without insurance.
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Residents have been warned not to exercise; people with asthma are clutching their inhalers, white-knuckled.
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For asthma inhalers and newer meds, doctors' offices often have samples that they'll give you for free.
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And keep medications, such as steroid nose sprays, inhalers or eye drops, on hand during hotel stays.
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Metered-dose albuterol inhalers are used to deliver medication into the body through the airway and lungs.
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The commerce company sells a range of caffeinated products, including drinks, pills, eye creams, inhalers and shampoos.
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It's even great for storing inhalers, epipens, and other small medical devices while you're on the go.
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Compromised vision, fine motor coordination and cognition can make it difficult for seniors to use inhalers correctly.
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Patients can smoke marijuana cigarettes, use inhalers, ingest oil extracts or even consume cookies containing marijuana extracts.
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"Every year, we gasp through the winter months, armed with oral steroids, inhalers and nebulisers," she said.
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Inhalers deliver albuterol to patients with the virus and to people with asthma or chronic respiratory conditions.
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Families should also fill their medicine cabinets with prescription medications and medical supplies, including inhalers for asthma.
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She was given inhalers to stop the coughing and wheezing, but they didn't seem to do much.
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So she is testing herself for allergic reactions while she can still buy her EpiPens and inhalers.
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He would overhear coaches talking about using asthma inhalers with their athletes, none of whom were actually sick.
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These were followed by inhalers for asthma or COPD and vitamin D or calcium for people with osteoporosis.
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Cities have developed transportation systems to track inefficient traffic flows and GPS-enabled asthma inhalers monitor air quality.
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People with medical conditions may want to attach trackers to devices they need to find quickly, like inhalers.
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These stories are filled with drugs and addiction, to speed and smack and sleeping pills and drugstore inhalers.
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In some parts of my Southern California district children are encouraged not to leave home without their inhalers.
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"Many times the assumption seems to be that these patients use their inhalers outside of the hospital so they already know how to do so, but this study and others have shown this is not true and the vast majority of these patients actively misuse their inhalers," Moriates said by email.
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The recall involves three lots of the Ventolin HFA 200D inhalers manufactured at GSK's plant in Zebulon, North Carolina.
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It is only given in severe life-threatening asthma, so don't ask for ketamine to replace your regular inhalers.
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Coughing spells had prevented him from sleeping, and his panoply of emphysema inhalers did little to quell his wheezing.
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His use of asthma medication has been well documented, and he has often been spotted using inhalers during races.
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The more complex items on the list include metered dose inhalers, ventilators, elastomeric respirators and powered air purifying respirators.
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Their pharmacy has seen shortages for Losartan, a blood pressure medication; Benzonatate, a cough medication; and some asthma inhalers.
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"People with asthma do not need allergists and emergency inhalers, they need bicycle helmets and fish bowls," the post reads.
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Wade's husband now requires inhalers and wears a breathing device to assist him when he sleeps, his medical records show.
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Researchers found that these metered-dose inhalers contribute 3.9% of the carbon footprint of the UK's National Health Service (NHS).
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But the higher up-front price of some dry powder inhalers was a "significant barrier" when moving to such alternatives.
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About 100,000 Iranian survivors of that chemical warfare live with chronic respiratory problems and often need inhalers and oxygen masks.
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A spokesperson for GlaxoSmithKline said the company is seeing increased demand for its inhalers and is taking steps to respond.
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"We are currently experiencing increased demand from healthcare providers in the US for Ventolin inhalers," said a spokesperson for GSK.
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We treat the immediacies of illness — antibiotics for pneumonia, inhalers for asthma — but good health requires much more than medications.
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Unlike some old medications, it only needs to be taken once a day and patients do not need multiple inhalers.
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And that dreaded chest cold I get every year, the one that requires two different inhalers and weeks of worry?
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I'm worried about elders without their heart medicine, diabetics whose insulin has gone bad in the heat, asthmatics without their inhalers.
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It only allows the drug to be sold in liquid or oil form for vaporizers and inhalers or capsules taken orally.
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I then called to question this again since the inhalers (2) were filled at one copay but not the multiple EpiPens.
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The company says affected inhalers don't actually pose a danger to patients, Reuters reports, so there's no need to return them.
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The affected inhalers are from lot numbers 6ZP0003, 6ZP9944 and 6ZP9848, and have been recalled from hospitals, pharmacies, retailers, and wholesalers.
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My hope is that this doesn't prevent asthmatic athletes from using their inhalers in emergency situations for fear of being judged.
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That's more than the 9.9 percent of people who stopped smoking using conventional quitting aids like the patch, gum, lozenges, or inhalers.
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Some people may need to use nicotine replacement therapy (NCT) — such as gum, patches, or inhalers — to kick their habit for good.
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Asthma was so common that when I was little, I thought inhalers were toys that almost all kids -- and many adults -- had.
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The defect does not pose a danger to patients, so they are not being asked to return inhalers they have already purchased.
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CD that will allow it to sell a range of cannabis-infused consumer products such as inhalers, transdermal patches, gels and lotions.
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Modern biotech asthma drugs are offering new hope for severe asthma sufferers who continue to have breathing problems despite using modern inhalers.
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Basic asthma inhalers, which once cost under $2300 (and still do in many countries), cost $2300 to $218 in the United States.
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Many of the exemptions were for asthma medication via inhalers, and the drug salbutamol which is no longer on WADA's banned list.
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Hospitals are using inhalers filled with albuterol to treat a growing number of patients with respiratory issues caused by the new coronavirus.
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Several types of medications are available to treat allergy symptoms, including pills, liquids, inhalers, nasal sprays, eye drops, skin creams and shots.
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These nasal inhalers are $18 a box, with two included that collectively will last about a year, according to a sales associate.
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In the bypass group, use of blood sugar-lowering drugs, cholesterol drugs, blood pressure drugs and inhalers for obstructed airways all decreased substantially.
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Complex drugs include medicines like metered-dose inhalers to treat asthma that have at least one feature difficult to copy under existing rules.
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It allows the drug to be sold only in liquid or oil form for use in vaporizers and inhalers, or capsules taken orally.
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Treatment for severe emphysema, which damages air sacs in the lungs and limits patients breathing ability, is currently limited to capsules and inhalers.
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Froome, who has had asthma since childhood and has often used inhalers in public, may face a suspension of a year or more.
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Those include providing colorectal cancer screenings for Medicare users and requiring that high-deductible plans cover inhalers for people with chronic lung disease.
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Treatment for severe emphysema, which damages air sacs in the lungs and limits patients' breathing ability, is currently limited to capsules and inhalers.
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With inhalers, the child should use it alone while the parent checks the dosage counter to make sure the correct amount came out.
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The supplies in many school nurses' offices include EpiPens for allergic reactions, inhalers for asthma — and now naloxone, an antidote for opioid overdoses.
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In 2011, investigators studied the effect of placebo inhalers in patients with mild-to-moderate asthma, a condition that frequently coexists with allergies.
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Asthma sufferers, a heads up: More than 593,000 albuterol inhalers have been recalled due to a problem with the medicine delivery system, Reuters reports.
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If your child has asthma or reactive airway disease, remember that a cough may be one of the symptoms and asthma inhalers may help.
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In response to these pressures, Indian firms have turned to more intricate products, such as patches and inhalers, as well as to more complex drugs.
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"There is possible risk that the affected inhalers could potentially not deliver the stated number of actuations," spokesman Juan Carlos Molina wrote in an email.
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Once customers go with Propeller, they'll be locked into their ecosystem and look to Propeller for the next innovation in inhalers and asthma/COPD management.
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Some inhalers with clip-on sensors are already being supplied to patients, but the drug industry is about to take things to the next level.
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Without public assistance, she was unable to afford the two inhalers — one was $200, the other was $75 — that she needed for her chronic asthma.
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Rick Plowman 66, complained bitterly about how despite having Medicare, he had to pay nearly $500 for inhalers to treat his chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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In the new study, researchers used electronic medication monitors on the inhalers which recorded the time interval between the first puff and the second puff.
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They may feel frustrated because they've been trying to take care of themselves by using their inhalers, and it just doesn't seem to be helping.
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It could resemble the old overhaul of Detroit, with companies directed to produce millions of masks, ventilators, gowns, inhalers, prescription drugs, virus tests and more.
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Metered dose inhalers (MDIs) filled with the medicine albuterol are in short supply, as hospitals need them to treat patients infected by the novel coronavirus.
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We found at least 2 listings on eBay for albuterol inhalers, a bronchodilator that relaxes muscles in the airways and increases airflow to the lungs.
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This pollution isn't cheap -- hospital and doctor's visits, asthma inhalers, and other health needs add up, and without affordable health care, are extremely difficult to cover.
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At this point, 52 percent of patients in the education group used inhalers correctly, compared with 24 percent for the group that didn't get extra help.
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E-cigarettes do not burn tobacco, but are battery-operated inhalers that heat up and vaporize liquid containing flavors and nicotine, a practice known as vaping.
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The pharma firm, which develops formulations and technology for dry-powder inhalers, saw Flutiform sales rising 4 percent, while Ultibro and Seebri sales grew 10.9 percent.
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But the value of technology depends on how you use it, and children — and adults — need to use their inhalers correctly for the devices to help.
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In fact, as profits have risen for common medications like EpiPens and inhalers, Big Pharma has gotten less innovative and expansive in its research and development.
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Over the past half century, inhalers have revolutionized care by delivering medicines direct into the lungs and avoiding the serious side effects seen with older oral drugs.
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She still needs to see the doctor regularly to get prescriptions for her rescue inhalers, and she's got a nebulizer to use if her symptoms are bad.
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So many kids on the football team at Martin's school have asthma, Hurt says, that the team's coaches each carry several prescription inhalers to games and practices.
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Cigarette alternatives have to be appealing to catch on, and current F.D.A.-approved replacements—nicotine patches, inhalers, gum—are designed to achieve a bare minimum of satisfaction.
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The new industry will not produce smokable marijuana but focus on oils, creams and inhalers produced in laboratories and personalized by prescription to each patient, he said.
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The Checkup A new study suggests that many patients aren't waiting between puffs on their inhalers and may not be deriving the full benefits of the drugs.
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A common type of inhalers is joining a running list of potential shortages straining the US healthcare system as it gears up to fight the novel coronavirus.
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Reuters Health - A major weakness of asthma care is that many patients don't know how to use inhalers to deliver life-saving medicine when they're gasping for air.
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Three lots of Ventolin HFA 200D inhalers have been voluntarily recalled due to a potential issue with the delivery system, a spokesman for the British pharmaceutical company said.
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I had bought some asthma inhalers earlier in the day and I was carrying them with me the whole time we were walking around going bar to bar.
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They range from connected toothbrushes that can tell you how well you are cleaning your teeth via an app, to smart inhalers that monitor a patient's inhaler use.
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Inhalers are used to deliver two different kinds of routine asthma medications, with the idea being that the drugs will go right to the airways, where they act.
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What we're using to treat the novel coronavirusBlake Dodge reports that we're running short on inhalers as hospitals need them to treat coronavirus patients experiencing shortness of breath.
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He said he wanted to make it easier for the generics manufacturers to get clearance for hard-to-copy products like eye drops, topical creams and asthma inhalers.
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Advair inhalers, typically lasting a month, officially retail for more than $330 in the United States but industry analysts estimate GSK can offer discounts of around 50 percent.
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Inhalers are used to treat the symptoms of conditions such as asthma by releasing medicine straight into a patient's lungs, widening the airways and making it easier to breathe.
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They're developing research-backed formulations to be sold as pills, inhalers, solutions and creams, with the goal of convincing doctors and insurers to embrace marijuana as a mainstream medicine.
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The leak affects how much medication these inhalers push out per dose, meaning that people with asthma and other respiratory issues might not be getting the treatment they need.
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"As a player, it's kind of scary coming to this city, seeing how the players are collapsing, seeing that fit players are needing inhalers to play tennis," he said.
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But some think they can take a vacation from the inhalers during the summer, and their children's doctors would really like to be consulted before the regimen is changed.
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Many of the first aid workers had left by the end of the week, but the medic area was still full of supplies, including inhalers, alcohol wipes, and bandages.
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Replacing 10% of metered-dose inhalers in England with the cheapest dry powder equivalents would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of 58 kilotonnes of CO2, the scientists said.
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What's more, the current proposal seems to suggest that the government is looking to prevent the distribution of cannabis for smoking purposes while giving preferential treatment to inhalers and capsules.
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There are even lawful medical applications for methamphetamine: in an obesity drug called Desoxyn and levomethamphetamine, present in Vick's vapor inhalers, and known to give false positives on drug tests.
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Alternatives to metered dose inhalers, like nebulizers, aren't as safe to use for people who might have the coronavirus, because they can help spread the virus and expose healthcare workers.
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But just in case, it's a good idea to bring along a few extra doses of any medications you're taking, as well as medical devices like inhalers or hearing aids.
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The P.A. encouraged the woman to use her inhalers; they really would prevent the episodes of coughing and wheezing that had sent her to the E.R. so often that year.
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The plan also puts new funding toward drug research and development, including $100 million per year to the FDA to help companies develop generics of complex products like asthma inhalers.
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For example, disabled people experience environmental ableism—like being denied straws or inhalers under the guise of climate activism—and are also most at-risk for dying of the coronavirus.
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Metered-dose inhalers contain liquified, compressed gas hydrofluoroalkane (HFA) -- a greenhouse gas -- which acts as a propellant to atomize the drug being delivered and to pump it out to the user.
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Kids with asthma may take a variety of daily medications to control the breathing disorder and also carry rescue inhalers to help restore their breathing when they have an asthma attack.
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Usmani, the Imperial College consultant, believes proving the cost-effectiveness of a connected device is the key challenge for smart inhalers, along with reassuring patients that their medical records are secure.
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The FDA didn't mention any drug or therapeutic class by name, referring to a category of complex generics that includes medicines delivered through devices like metered dose inhalers, or auto-injectors.
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Health-care stocks were also lower, down by 0.22 percent, as U.S. lawmakers made attempts to reconcile differences to replace Obamacare and drugmaker GSK announced it is recalling 600,000 asthma inhalers.
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Alabama's UAB Medicine is trying to limit MDI use to just COVID-19 patients in an attempt to conserve inhalers, according to Mark Todd, the chief pharmacy officer for UAB Hospital.
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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is voluntarily recalling more than 593,000 Ventolin asthma inhalers in the U.S. due to a defect that may cause the devices to deliver fewer doses of the medicine than indicated.
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I know this challenge isn't unique to food allergies, our family has lived it with cancer treatments and asthma inhalers, and watched helplessly while friends with diabetes struggle with surging insulin prices.
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In the notification, UEFA told Sakho that the violation occurred because WADA's prohibited list includes all beta2-agonists, which can be found in asthma inhalers, and that Higenamine is a beta2-agonist.
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Both CVS and Express Scripts, which is part of Cigna Corp, said they are setting limits on hydroxychloroquine, antibiotic azithromycin, a type of anti-viral called a protease inhibitor and albuterol inhalers.
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Both CVS and Express Scripts, which is part of Cigna Corp, said they are setting limits on hydroxychloroquine, antibiotic azithromycin, a type of anti-viral called a protease inhibitor and albuterol inhalers.
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Our failure was not today but a few weeks ago, when she was last in the E.R. and we didn't find a way to get her asthma inhalers to her at home.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Makers of inhalers to treat asthma and chronic lung disease are racing to develop a new generation of smart devices with sensors to monitor if patients are using their puffers properly.
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Usmani envisages a future of high-tech inhalers that not only record doses but also use gyroscopic and acoustic sensors to check medicine flow, while monitoring the environment for allergens such as pollen.
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Do e-liquids—which are vaporized, then inhaled into the lungs, and often used as a way to quit smoking—need to be produced to the standards of medical grade products like inhalers?
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For more on the company, click on The Finnish drug maker said on Wednesday it plans to apply for a marketing authorisation in Europe for a new formulation for its asthma treatment inhalers.
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Miller pointed to areas he expects to prioritize in future grant-making: How delivery devices, like inhalers or insulin pens, are used to extend a drug's exclusivity period and keep its price high.
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Anxiety among current members has some of them stocking up on antiviral medications including Tamiflu and Xofluza for the flu, respiratory medications like Albuterol inhalers and Sudafed, and antibiotics like Levaquin and Azithromycin.
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As my colleague Timothy Williams will detail in a planned piece, Connecticut is one of the few states to view methadone treatment for addicts in jail as akin to insulin or asthma inhalers.
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Over the next decade, executives also considered putting nicotine in beverages, edibles, a skin lotion, and even inhalers that were similar in concept to the e-cigarettes that would come to market decades later.
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Indicated 3.5 percent higher The drugs-packaging firm reported a bigger than expected rise in quarterly core profit on Thursday as strong sales of asthma inhalers helped bolster earnings at its Plastic & Devices division.
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But when researchers randomly assigned some patients with asthma and COPD to receive personalized hands-on instruction with new inhalers while they were in the hospital, 91 percent of them used the devices correctly.
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AMLG: On the commercial side I saw the announcement that you teamed up with UPS to do a test near Boston, a three-mile drone delivery of asthma inhalers to a kids' summer camp.
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Wyatt's feelings for Decker have been well-documented throughout November, with his comments on her photos ranging from the simple "Hot Queen" to the thirstier "Are inhalers over the counter?" to the drooling emoji.
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While the blame for the children's illnesses can't be placed entirely on their lack of inhalers, "we do think this is an important factor contributing to the severity of their presentations," Halevy-Mizrahi said.
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Amgen raised the price on its blockbuster rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis drug Enbrel by 9.7 percent and Teva increased prices on its ProAir HFA and ProAir RespiClick asthma inhalers by 6 and 3 percent, respectively.
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In Beijing in 2008, some athletes were given inhalers and specially designed face masks to protect them from the heavy pollution (which miraculously disappeared when the Olympics began, then reappeared a day after the closing ceremony).
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The buying power of these middlemen has been brought to bear particularly in areas of medicine where there are several similar treatments to choose from, such as insulin injections and inhalers for asthma and chronic lung disease.
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Injections for severe asthma have opened up a multibillion-dollar market as competing drugmakers have raced to develop antibody-based medicines for the 15 percent or more of patients who do poorly even on the latest inhalers.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Belgian rider Tim Wellens described the use of anti-asthma inhalers as tantamount to cheating, after four-times Tour de France champion Chris Froome failed a test for Salbutamol during last year's Tour of Spain.
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They said the owners of Consort Medical, which makes drug delivery devices including nasal inhalers and pharmaceutical compounds, would receive 10.10 pounds per share, valuing the share capital at 505 million pounds on a fully diluted basis.
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They said the owners of Consort Medical, which makes drug delivery devices including nasal inhalers and pharmaceutical compounds, would receive 10.10 pounds per share, valuing the share capital at 505 million pounds on a fully diluted basis.
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Eitan, who asked to use their Hebrew name as a pseudonym, sought help for a drug problem going back to their teenage years — after their mom died of an asthma attack because she couldn't afford her inhalers.
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With this digital infrastructure in place, Schadt envisions a future in which more and more patients share not only their genomes but also medical and lifestyle information collected by monitoring devices like glucometers, blood-pressure trackers, and inhalers.
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These include: reinforcement of regular monitoring of lung function; instruction on inhaler techniques; creation and review of written asthma management plan for each kid; and education on when to use rescue inhalers and maintenance drugs to control symptoms.
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While current smart inhalers use a clip-on device to send data, Novartis, working with Qualcomm, aims to go a step further by developing the first inhaler with an integrated sensor, which it aims to launch in 2019.
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Since 2014, U.S. firms have invested about $50 million in licensing Israeli medical marijuana patents, cannabis agro-tech startups and firms developing delivery devices such as inhalers, said Saul Kaye, CEO of iCAN, a private cannabis research hub.
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For example, after difficult trial and error, my patients and I find a set of prescriptions to manage a problem like asthma, only to find out that the insurance company no longer covers some of the inhalers prescribed.
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In the first two weeks of March, hospitals ordered more than twice as many metered-dose inhalers (MDIs) as they did over comparable periods in January and February, according to data compiled by Premier, a healthcare-supply company.
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UK pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline voluntarily recalled the inhalers after multiple customers complained about a bulge in the outer wrapper, which indicates a leak in the propellant that moves the medication out of the inhaler and into a patient's airway.
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Across genres, all the art is made with items accessible to a prisoner—Kool-Aid, the wobbly plastic ink inserts of pens, inhalers fashioned into airbrush machines, pencils, deodorant—or stolen from somewhere technically not accessible to a prisoner.
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The start-up, called Propeller Health, has an FDA-approved set of apps and tools for people with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, such as a connected inhalers that are synced up to a user's smartphone.
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A $2625,258 insurance deductible meant she had to take out a personal loan to pay her share of the bills, and when she couldn't afford her inhalers, at roughly $2000 to $268 a month, she would do without them.
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At every school in New Rochelle, just north of the Bronx, in Westchester, there is a locked medicine cabinet in the nurse's office, stocked with things like EpiPens for allergic reactions, inhalers for asthma, Tylenol for aches and pains.
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Bose, Boosted (the maker of Boosted board), Samsonite, Herschel Supply, and Propeller Health (a maker of connected inhalers) will all allow users to track their devices through Tile's location tracking platform and app, without the need for an actual Tile tracker.
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Overall, a year's course of benralizumab injections cut the rate of serious attacks, known as exacerbations, by between a third and a half in patients with eosinophil-driven asthma who were already making optimal use of inhalers, the data showed.
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Nearly all of the sickest asthma patients who wind up hospitalized when symptoms get out of control have no idea how to use inhalers to deliver what's known as rescue therapy – fast-acting steroids that make it easier to breathe.
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GSK Plc is voluntarily recalling more than 593,000 Ventolin asthma inhalers from U.S. hospitals, pharmacies, retailers and wholesalers due to a defect that may cause them to deliver fewer doses of the medicine than indicated, the British drugmaker said on Tuesday.
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Based on a total of three Instagram posts, queer culture site Autostraddle, concluded that it was theoretically, hypothetically, within-the-margin-of-error possible that Carrie Brownstein and Broad City star Abbi Jacobson might actually be— grab your inhalers, everyone — dating.
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The game provides enough battery juice to take out nearly every enemy you come across, and there's so many health packs scattered about (presented here in the form of inhalers) that any scrap you get into has little lasting impact.
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A study published in February in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice suggests that many patients — adults and children alike — are not using their inhalers correctly, and may not be deriving the full benefits of the drugs.
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The people I focus my stories on don't worry about the number of parts per million of carbon dioxide allowed in the Paris climate deal; they worry about the number of asthma inhalers they can afford to buy in order to survive.
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"We think the opportunity for a nebulized LAMA is relatively limited by the treatment paradigm in COPD, where combination therapy is the mainstay and there is wide availability of numerous inhalers containing two-three mechanisms in one," Skorney said in a note.
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Other technologically based mental health tools include pills with embedded sensors that are able to let patients and doctors know whether medication was taken properly, and asthma inhalers that provide personalized feedback by way of connecting with networks of air-quality sensors.
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The idea behind the program is to help patients avoid over-using their so-called "rescue inhalers," which could worsen symptoms over time, and to make sure they don't neglect their controller medications that can be taken at anytime to prevent flare-ups.
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Cipla, one of India's largest drug makers, whose main generic products include asthma inhalers and H.I.V. drugs, declined to comment on Tuesday on the export limits but said in a statement that it had enough inventory to last one to two months.
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In a 2018 study of what convinces parents to adhere to inhaled corticosteroid regimens with their asthmatic children, a large proportion of parents said that children 8 and over were partially responsible for using their inhalers and noticing whether they were empty.
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The company said it was also setting up limits on the use of azithromycin, a protease inhibitor and albuterol inhalers so that its PBM members with chronic conditions would be able to use the drugs, which have seen a surge in demand.
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In my case that meant a full-sized Brazilian Jiu Jitsu gi — a huge robe-like training uniform — and the rest of my workout clothes, plus assorted nerd stuff, like my inhalers and 10 micron pens ranging from fine tip to extremely very fine tip.
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The California girl's parents were careful to check food labels for milk and other potential allergens but did not think to check the toothpaste, which triggered a deadly allergic reaction that did not respond to an epinephrine pen or inhalers, Altamirano told the magazine.
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In the past year, U.S. and other firms have invested about $100 million to license Israeli medical marijuana patents, cannabis agro-tech startups and firms developing delivery devices such as inhalers, said Saul Kaye, chief executive of iCAN, a private cannabis research hub in Israel.
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Mylan is also in the asthma treatment market; the company makes EasiVent, which attaches to asthma inhalers to help the medicine more easily reach the lungs, and it recently failed to get regulatory approval for a generic version of the blockbuster asthma drug Advair.
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When more potent stimulants were more widely available—for example, when inhalers containing Benzedrine, the first pharmaceutical amphetamine, were so common they were listed on the Pan Am in-flight menu alongside "Beverages and Diversions"—their marketed purpose was fulfilled personhood, not enhanced productivity.
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Hospitals are trying to reserve inhalers for patients with COVID-19Like many health systems around the country, UCHealth is trying to reserve MDIs for patients with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, according to Jason Persoff, the assistant director for emergency preparedness.
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Studies have shown that a third of kidney transplant patients don't take their anti-rejection medications, 41 percent of heart attack patients don't take their blood pressure medications, and half of children with asthma either don't use their inhalers at all or use them inconsistently.
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Canopy Health and other firms now aim to craft new formulations with varying cannabinoid levels; to find the best dosage delivery systems, such as rapid-release or long-acting tablets or metered-dose inhalers; or to combine cannabinoids with other drugs or supplements to improve effectiveness.
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Depending on their symptoms and severity, children with asthma may be on "rescue" medications that they use only when they are having asthma symptoms, usually delivered through inhalers, or they may also take "controller" medications like inhaled corticosteroids every day, whether they're feeling sick or well.
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I also suffer from a perennial sinus infection that usually shows up during February or March, then blossoms into a full upper respiratory infection before the grand finale: situational asthma that requires two different inhalers; prednisone; and during one particularly bad bout, a nebulizer at urgent care.
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The committee also approved by voice vote three bipartisan bills that would require certain high-deductible health plans to cover the cost of inhalers, allow the use of tax-advantaged accounts to purchase over-the-counter medications and menstrual-care products and expand accessibility to health savings accounts.
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Other new additions include Samsonite, which will make luggage that doesn't get lost; Propeller Health, which will add Tile's technology to its connected inhalers for people with asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Boosted, which will add Tile to its Boosted Boards; plus baby wearable maker Starling; and Herschel, which makes wallets, keychain holders and passport holders.
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"There are a few things that families can do to keep loved ones safe and healthy; this includes making sure your family has an emergency plan, as well as a supply kit with important materials like shelf-stable food products, hygiene necessities and medical products, which of course includes epinephrine auto-injectors, inhalers and the like," Gable says.
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While she didn't originate the idea of the ACE (adverse childhood experiences) score, she did put it into practice in her clinic: She realized that she could give out all the inhalers and Ritalin she wanted, but unless she addressed the underlying issues of trauma, the medications were just a bandage and a lifetime of other health issues were unavoidable.
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