Last warning: Asthma inhalers go "green" on Dec. 31, forcing patients still using the old-fashioned kind to make a pricey and even confusing switch. The medicine inside these rescue inhalers — the ...

Last warning: Asthma inhalers go "green" on Dec. 31, forcing patients still using the old-fashioned kind to make a pricey and even confusing switch. The medicine inside these rescue inhalers — the ...

Beginning January first of next year, the FDA is banning inhalers that harm the environment. A California asthma advocacy group is concerned the new so-called "green inhalers" may not be as effective.

The news followed an investigation by POLITICO’s E&E News into climate-friendly inhalers and how drug giants are developing them to undermine competition. The pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has ...

Drug companies are taking advantage of a global climate treaty to boost profits. The treaty, signed by some 120 countries nearly a decade ago, is now providing inhaler makers with a golden escape ...

Switching to “green” inhalers for conditions such as asthma could cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce drug costs, a study suggests. Research led by the University of Cambridge looked at the carbon ...

Dr. Miguel Divo, a lung specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, sits in an exam room, across from one of his patients with asthma. Joel Rubinstein, a retired psychiatrist, is about to get a ...

Eco-friendly asthma inhalers could lower both greenhouse emissions and medical costs, according to a new British study. Inhalers use hydrofluoroalkane (HFA) propellants to atomize and pump out the ...

Old-fashioned asthma inhalers that contain environment-harming chemicals will no longer be sold at year's end - and the U.S. government is urging patients not to wait until the last minute to switch ...

Last warning: Asthma inhalers go "green" on Dec. 31, forcing patients still using the old-fashioned kind to make a pricey and even confusing switch. The medicine inside these rescue inhalers — the ...

The Biden administration has reformed Medicare, gone after bogus drug patents and pushed pharmaceutical companies to reduce inhaler costs for patients. “Climate-friendly inhalers” could jeopardize ...

Last warning: Asthma inhalers go "green" on Dec. 31, forcing patients still using the old-fashioned kind to make a pricey and even confusing switch. The medicine inside these rescue inhalers — the ...