A peak flow meter is a simple, small, hand-held tool that can help you maintain control of asthma by providing a measurement of how well air moves out of the lungs. After blowing into the device, the ...

Asthma inhalers can be for quick relief or long-term control. Rescue inhalers work by relaxing your airway muscles to help ...

Patricia Mikula, PharmD, has over nine years of experience and works as an inpatient clinical pharmacist for medical/surgical and intensive care unit patients. She also oversees a hospital-based ...

In 2017, an expert commission organized by the Lancet examined the current state of asthma care. That commission identified poor medication adherence as one of the principal barriers standing between ...

This new data was the result of a recent case-controlled study that aimed to assess the effects of a PDL that provides an exemption from out-of-pocket cost sharing for patients’ asthma medications on ...

When Jacqueline Vakil needed a refill for Flovent, her 4-year-old son’s asthma medicine, she couldn’t get it. The drugmaker GSK had stopped making the popular inhaler, back in January. To make matters ...