For the study, researchers tracked 1,070 kids aged 12 to 18 who were overweight or obese and also had a diagnosis of asthma.
Editor's note: Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez is a primary care pediatrician, director of pediatric telemedicine and assistant professor of pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Flovent, ...
Six months after GSK stopped making a popular inhaler, pediatric patients with asthma still struggle to find alternative medications while urgent cares and hospitals contend with a rise in ...
Singulair (generic for Montelukast) may seem like the ideal medication for kiddos (or parents) with asthma–it’s an easy-to-use daily pill that helps prevent asthma attacks and relieves allergy ...
From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! When Media-resident Jacqueline Vakil needed a refill in January for Flovent, her ...
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 ...
A study published in JAMA found GLP-1 medications helped relieve symptoms of obesity-related asthma. Children taking them had ...