Children who received the drug suffered fewer attacks and had to resort to their inhalers less often.
Most companies that make the inhalers have retooled, reinvested, and come up with new products that are CFC-free.
Schering's manufacturing was so shoddy that it couldn't be sure it hadn't shipped asthma inhalers that were empty.
Mannkind recently built a factory in Danbury, Conn. that can produce up to 50 million inhalers a year.
In a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine last July he described an experiment with asthma inhalers.
She noticed that whenever patients left the hospital, leftover medications like eye drops or inhalers were just thrown away.
All the children used inhalers to treat the symptoms when they felt wheezy.
Research shows that nicotine replacement medications like nicotine gum, patches or inhalers double a smoker's chances of quitting.
Asthma inhalers like albuterol, which work by stimulating beta-receptor cells in the lungs, were first used to treat high-altitude climbers.
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Millions of people with asthma use inhalers, like Advair, that give them long-lasting relief from the wheezing, suffocating symptoms of the disease.
On the other hand, studies of the traditional cessation methods show that these products patches, gum, inhalers, medications simply do not work.
The company also created smaller pill packets and asthma inhalers for people who couldn't afford to buy a full month's supply at a time.
But many doctors worry that the inhalers could damage the lungs.
Inhalers are allowed, but under certain circumstances in Olympic drug-testing rules.
The most eager customers for the inhalers will likely be the 1 million juvenile-onset (type I) diabetics like Nikki Marquez, who don't produce insulin at all.
The disease is managed by preventing and relieving the major symptoms - breathlessness, wheezing and coughing - using inhalers and, in extreme cases, with steroid tablets.
Until Chantix was approved, smokers had two drug options: nicotine replacement, including patches, gums and inhalers, and Zyban, a generic antidepressant developed by GlaxoSmithkline a decade ago.
Asthmapolis, an organization that is just getting off the ground, connects we-ness to improving health for chronically ill patients by attaching a small GPS-enabled device to rescue inhalers.
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Part of the phase-out involved asthma inhalers, propelled by CFCs.
People died clutching their inhalers long before Serevent came along.
We have even considered refusing to prescribe inhalers until some patients come for a review, and even those who do come go straight back to their old habits very quickly.
Pharmaceutical products include metered dose inhalers and transdermal patches.
Some inhalers require coordinating your breath with medication release.
Some consumer and environmental movements have flourished in rich countries, even though Olson's theory suggests that firms and polluters should have a strong organisational advantage over consumers and inhalers of dirty air.
They said no to liver transplants, no to staying an extra night in the hospital after delivering a baby, no to fancy new asthma inhalers, and no to an MRI of your knee.
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The data companies maintain that gathering the prescription data is good for public health--for instance, it might show that in a poor area with a high asthma rate too few inhalers have been prescribed.
"People with lung disease, particularly asthmatics should keep an eye on ozone forecasts on Ceefax and in the papers so they can double their inhalers if the levels are likely to be high, " he said.
The drug, is found in Seretide and Servant inhalers, acts on beta-2 receptors in the lining of the airways, but previous research has shown that as many as one-in-seven children carry a gene variant - arginine-16 - that undermines its effectiveness.
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