Anticoagulants, which reduce the blood’s ability to clot, are only a “good thing” to take if you are at a high risk for a dangerous blood clot. In the column that you mention, the reader actually had ...

In a recent column, you noted that many patients do not properly use their inhaled asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) medications, but you didn’t tell us how to properly use them. I’d ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Risk and annualized rate of severe exacerbations dropped with as-needed use of albuterol-budesonide vs.

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

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. patients who use certain asthma inhalers made with ozone-depleting propellants should talk to their doctors now about alternatives ahead of a ban that starts in January, ...

Time is running out for patients who use albuterol inhalers to replace those propelled by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) with ones that rely on eco-friendly hydrofluoroalkane (HFA). After December 31, ...