Senator Maggie Hassan launches an investigation into GlaxoSmithKline's withdrawal of a popular asthma inhaler, linking it to ...

Senator Maggie Hassan is investigating GSK's discontinuation of Flovent HFA, citing increased hospitalizations, higher drug ...

Inhalers are different, so check your instructions. Prime the inhaler first. You need to do this when you use an inhaler for the first time, or if you haven’t used it for 2 weeks or more.

Inhalers have been key to asthma management since the 1950s. The most common, salbutamol, comes in a familiar blue-colored inhaler (or "puffer").

Poor treatment of asthma and COPD puts a huge burden on the NHS. For example, £1 billion is spent on asthma treatment in the UK each year and represents 60,000 to 65,000 hospital admissions.

More children stopped using steroid inhalers to control their asthma after a manufacturer discontinued a popular inhaler, a new study says. In 2024, GlaxoSmithKline withdrew Flovent from the market.

Asthma inhaler access dropped from nearly 41% to nearly 35% between 2021 and 2023 among patients 18 and younger prescribed Flovent (fluticasone), researchers found.

For many years, the standard treatment for asthma was an inhaler with a medication called albuterol. Only if that wasn’t enough would additional medicines be added. If symptoms became especially ...

People with asthma know how important inhalers are, but they are also a source of planet-warming pollution. A new study looks at that impact and what can be done.