Hundreds of thousands of Facebook users in February 2018 shared an article warning that the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline had issued a massive recall of Ventolin inhalers, an essential ...

WASHINGTON —The Food and Drug Administration at the end of May issued a public health advisory to alert patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals to switch to hydrofluoroalkane-propelled ...

WASHINGTON, May 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a public health advisory that chlorofluorocarbon, or CFC-propelled inhalers will not be available next year. The CFC-propelled ...

BENTONVILLE, Ark., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Wal-Mart has announced it will carry an environmentally friendly albuterol rescue inhaler starting at $9, company officials in Bentonville, Ark., said. The ReliOn ...

DevPro Biopharma and Bespak have announced the completion of early feasibility studies on DP007, a new formulation of albuterol in a pressurized metered dose inhaler (pMDI) which shows comparable ...

WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration today issued a public health advisory to alert patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals to switch to hydrofluoroalkane propelled albuterol inhalers ...

Purpose: The effects of extreme temperatures on drug delivery of two albuterol sulfate hydrofluoroalkane, metered-dose inhalers (MDIs) were evaluated.Methods. Three Proventil HFA and three Ventolin ...

The transition from CFC to HFA propellants is occurring because of public health concerns about the detrimental effects of CFCs on stratospheric ozone levels. In 2005, the Food and Drug Administration ...

The US Food and Drug Administration advised patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals to switch to hydrofluoroalkane-propelled albuterol inhalers now because chlorofluorocarbon-propelled ...

Walgreens, CVS, Walmart, etc. Ventolin albuterol is a bronchodilator that relaxes muscles in the airways and increases air flow to the lungs. Ventolin HFA is used to treat or prevent bronchospasm, or ...

Leak Rate. It is common for MDIs to lose propellant during storage. The propellant-leak rate of the test MDIs was compared with that of the controls (Figure 3). The leak rates for the Proventil HFA ...