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 'inhalers'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:58:18 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2011566&cid=t_93934_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F473498128%2F ‘Tis the middle of the week and that can mean only one thing - the need to dig out from under meetings, deadlines and projects. To help you cope, we have unearthed a few items of interest. Hope your day goes well, no matter what… Merck Shifts Seattle Chief To Boston Lab (Bio-ITWorld) Gardasil Allergic Reactions Are Uncommon: Study (Yahoo/Reuters) Glaxo To Cut 200 Jobs At UK Plant (BBC) Asthma Sufferers Concerned Over New Inhalers (Arizona Republic) (Source: Pharmalot) Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2011566 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:19:30 +0100 2011566 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1494644&cid=t_93934_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_93934_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=820678&cid=t_93934_117_f&fid=34444&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.webmd.com%2Fallergies-and-asthma%2F2007%2F08%2Fhigh-cost-of-asthma-medications-in.html In my personal opinion, the high cost of asthma therapy in the United States (over $100 per month for each controller inhaler) is due to the greed of the big drug companies, and the costs will only get higher during the next two years. Inhalers are a ten billion dollar a year market worldwide, and growing rapidly. The profit is very, very high, even considering the inflated R&D expenses. During the past 7 years, pharmaceutical companies have successfully lobbied the FDA and Congress to ban any generic asthma inhalers (controller or reliever).The problem with health plans fully covering every asthma inhaler is that it would provide no incentive for the manufacturers and distributors to control (lower) prices. The inhaler manufacturers run almost all of the research on asthma inhalers, s... Allergies and Asthma blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=820678 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 820678 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=438165&cid=t_93934_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