MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'albuterol'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:36:13 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4575066&cid=t_93936_97_f&fid=35606&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theangriestpharmacist.com%2F2011%2F03%2F10%2Fno-fix-needed-youre-an-idiot%2F Some of you may remember the post from a few days ago where a guy asked me to fix his inhaler / aerochamber. Well, tonight I finally filled in all the holes. He came back in...as angry as every. I asked him what the problem was and his exact response was precious: "I asked you what I'd need to do if I get this inhaler home and it didn't work and you SWORE UP AND DOWN IT WOULD. Well guess what -- the motherf.er don't work. Ya'll are selling defective shit in here, and I've done spent like $80 bucks on these sumbitches and you, yeah, you...right here [pointing at me as if I were the master of all things Ventolin HFA]...are gonna give me my money back....plus some, find out whose got one of these Gaht DAMN things that work, and transfer this prescription there." Can you hear a big bellied red... The Angriest Pharmacist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4575066 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:29:45 +0100 4575066 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4277959&cid=t_93936_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FlQTCI1cR4OA%2F Yet another drugmaker is forking over a big fine to settle charges of deliberately misreporting pricing info in order to hike reimbursements from Medicare and Medicaid. The latest is Dey Pharma, which is currently owned by Mylan Laboratories and agreed to resolve charges that prices were rigged for Albuterol and a few other meds. However, since the alleged wrongdoing occurred before Mylan bought Dey from Merck KGgA in 2007, the German drugmaker is responsible for paying the settlement and related expenses associated with pending and future-related Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement lawsuits. In any event, a Mylan statement maintains the settlement does not constitute an admission of wrongdoing. This is only the latest instance in which drugmakers have been tagged for rigging the average w... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4277959 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:29:53 +0100 4277959 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4275592&cid=t_93936_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FlQTCI1cR4OA%2F Yet another drugmaker is forking over a big fine to settle charges of deliberately misreporting pricing info in order to hike reimbursements from Medicare and Medicaid. The latest is Dey Pharma, which is currently owned by Mylan Laboratories and agreed to resolve charges that prices were rigged for Albuterol and a few other meds. However, since the alleged wrongdoing occurred before Mylan bought Dey from Merck KGgA in 2007, the German drugmaker is responsible for paying the settlement and related expenses associated with pending and future-related Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement lawsuits. In any event, a Mylan statement maintains the settlement does not constitute an admission of wrongdoing. This is only the latest instance in which drugmakers have been tagged for rigging the average w... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4275592 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:29:53 +0100 4275592 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4018439&cid=t_93936_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FykEevcEUaFQ%2F After a three-week trial, a federal jury decided former Schering-Plough subsidiary Warwick Pharmaceuticals caused the Massachusetts Medicaid program to overpay for prescriptions of the albuterol asthma med, and Merck - which now owns Schering-Plough - must pay $4.6 million in compensatory damages. Punitive damages have yet to be determined. The trial was part of ongoing and sprawling litigation centered in federal court in Boston in which numerous drugmakers have been sued for allegedly overcharging states for their medicines (here is the original lawsuit). AstraZeneca, for instance, recently agreed to settle a lawsuit over average wholesale pricing by paying $103 million (back story). For its part, Merck plans to appeal, but had argued Warrick was never required or asked to provide info a... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4018439 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:23:35 +0100 4018439 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3965707&cid=t_93936_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Frecoveryissexy.com%2Fhow-benzodiazepines-made-me-sick%2F This has been my experience with Benzodiazapines. I was prescribed the benzodiazepine drug Ativan by a psychiatrist for some depression I was having due to a physical attack I had at work. I was not seeking drugs, I just wanted someone to talk to. He suggested I should really try Ativan, they wouldn’t do anything but “help me”. So I did, I took .05 mg once a day and returned to his office every month for a follow-up and another script. After 4 months I tried to stop taking them and had some problems doing so. I contacted him about it and he said he needed to change my dose to 1 mg. I wasn’t sure of his decision because I wasn’t feeling well. So I picked up the script. When I got home I only took half the pill and discarded the other half keeping the dose the same. A year had pass... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3965707 Mon, 13 Sep 2010 15:12:00 +0100 3965707 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1494644&cid=t_93936_117_f&fid=36026&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fzimney%2Flindsey-lohan%25e2%2580%2599s-asthma-attack-a-wake-up-call-on-albuterol%2F I don’t really know if Lindsay Lohan had an asthma attack at 30,000 feet, or whether she spent two hours in an LA emergency room or had to be admitted for treatment, because the news reports are conflicting and unclear as of this writing. But I do know that millions of Americans suffer acute asthma attacks every year (11 million during each year between 1997 and 2004), and that they often require emergency room treatment (1.8 million asthma ER visits for each year between 2001 and 2003) and hospitalization (an average of 500,000 hospital admissions each year). Worse yet, there were about 4,200 deaths from asthma each year between 2001 and 2003. Those alarming statistics come from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). What these numbers mean is that a lot of people depend on albuterol-ba... Dr. Z's Medical Report blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1494644 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:06:36 +0100 1494644 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1492360&cid=t_93936_117_f&fid=36026&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fzimney%2Flindsey-lohan%25e2%2580%2599s-asthma-attack-a-wake-up-call-on-albuterol%2F I don’t really know if Lindsey Lohan had an asthma attack at 30,000 feet, or whether she spent two hours in an LA emergency room or had to be admitted for treatment, because the news reports are conflicting and unclear as of this writing. But I do know that millions of Americans suffer acute asthma attacks every year (11 million during each year between 1997 and 2004), that they often require emergency room treatment (1.8 million asthma ER visits for each year between 2001 and 2003), and hospitalization (an average of 500,000 hospital admissions each year). Worse yet, there were about 4,200 deaths from asthma each year between 2001 and 2003. Those alarming statistics come from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). What these numbers mean is that a lot of people depend on albuterol-based... Dr. Z's Medical Report blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1492360 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:44:45 +0100 1492360 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=452709&cid=t_93936_117_f&fid=34444&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.webmd.com%2Fallergies-and-asthma%2F2007%2F03%2Fupdated-asthma-guidelines.html Every five years, guidelines for physicians who diagnose and treat asthma are updated by the NAEPP's Expert Panel to incorporate newly published evidence from research studies. Last weekend in San Diego I attended the largest allergy meeting in the world, the annual congress of the AAAAI, where the 2007 update of the asthma guidelines was presented by some of the panel members. The full 600-page document is available for downloading and public comments before March 15. One of the panel members, only half-joking, said that the only people who have commented on previous drafts are employees of asthma drug companies who believe that their drug should have received more emphasis. About 20 of the 4000 allergists at the meeting stood at the microphones to ask questions of the panel members durin... Allergies and Asthma blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=452709 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:00:00 +0100 452709 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=438165&cid=t_93936_117_f&fid=34444&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.webmd.com%2Fallergies-and-asthma%2F2006%2F03%2Fprimatene-mist-or-albuterol.html I've always been told that Primatene Mist -- an over-the counter (OTC) epinephrine (adrenaline) metered-dose inhaler (MDI) -- was less effective and more dangerous than Albuterol as an asthma rescue inhaler. However, a new multi-center study [Hendeles L] funded by the National Institutes of Health proves that I was wrong (at least for young adults with asthma).For nighttime asthma attacks, lung function and symptoms improved just as fast, improved the same average amount, and the improvement lasted just as long after patients took several puffs of Primatene Mist as when they took several puffs of albuterol on a different night. Unexpectedly, average pulse rates went down after Primatene Mist, but up after albuterol. Blood potassium levels fell lower after albuterol than after Primatene Mis... Allergies and Asthma blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=438165 Wed, 08 Mar 2006 05:00:00 +0100 438165 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=438176&cid=t_93936_117_f&fid=34444&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.webmd.com%2Fallergies-and-asthma%2F2005%2F12%2Ftoo-many-asthma-medications.html Folks with asthma are often taking 2 or 3 asthma medications every day, even when they have been in the green zone of good control for many months. Most of the time, they can work with their doctor to successfully discontinue one or two of those expensive medications and remain in good control.Brooke, a 12 year old girl with mild asthma since age 5 gets a cold in February which "goes to her chest," causing coughing spasms followed by wheezing and shortness of breath, relieved by her albuterol rescue inhaler. During the next 3 days her asthma does not improve and she requires albuterol every 4-6 hours. So her mom takes her to the pediatrician in their Dallas suburb. She hears wheezing, measures a peak flow of 60% of predicted, and agrees that Brooke's asthma is worse (into the yellow zone o... Allergies and Asthma blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=438176 Tue, 27 Dec 2005 05:00:00 +0100 438176