In March 2005, the US Food and Drug Administration announced that albuterol inhalers using CFC propellants should no longer be produced, marketed, or sold in the United States after December 31 ...

The National Campaign to Save CFC Asthma Inhalers has collected more than 4,500 ... Or contact drug-makers about free or discounted prices offered to lower-income patients. Check with Medicare ...

CFC inhalers run about $5-$25 apiece ... The Allergy and Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics offers a free phone consultation service in which patients may talk to a nurse practitioner about ...

The tightening supply market for the CFC inhalers is pushing more patients from generics to brand-name versions of the same drug, and to CFC-free devices–both of which are significantly more ...

Even as the world celebrates the International Ozone Day on Sunday (September 16), pharma companies are now introducing new technology in their inhalers which is CFC-free, and hence not harmful.

Follow the instructions carefully. If your VENTOLIN Inhaler is new and you have not used it before, or if you have not used it for 5 days or more, you should shake it well, point the mouthpiece ...

Well, the ozone layer was the initial cause of all this, so feel free to place some of the ... R&D outfit searching for substitutes for CFC-based inhalers into a lobbying group intent on ...

Hemingway points to the experiences of The Atlantic's Megan McArdle with non-CFC inhalers (as well as low-energy clothes dryers, fluorescent light bulbs and low-flow toilets) as evidence that ...

If you are worried about using this medicine, speak to your doctor or pharmacist. ASMOL INHALER contains the active ingredient salbutamol sulfate. ASMOL INHALER, which you may know better as a ...

People with asthma and other breathing disorders now are prescribed more environmentally friendly hydrofluoroalkane-propelled inhalers. The devices are just as effective as CFC inhalers ...