kids' asthma

2024-06-28-j wilson -media pa-inhaler shortage

Health & Safety

A discontinued asthma medication has patients scrambling, some to the ER

1:20pm July 22, 2024

by Alan Yu

Drugmaker GSK stopped making asthma inhaler Flovent earlier this year. That’s left patients struggling to find other medication their insurance will cover.Children have been hit especially hard.

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Fear of having to go to the ER during a pandemic might have led kids with asthma to be more careful about regularly using their "controller" inhalers, researchers suspect. But that's likely only one factor in the decline in ER visits.

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Health & Safety

What Drove The Drop In Kids' Asthma ER Visits At A Boston Hospital During Lockdown?

10:36am January 04, 2021

by Kristen Kendrick

Boston Children's Hospital saw a precipitous drop in cases during the spring shutdown, and the trend continues. Researchers are asking why — and what it would take to keep up the change post-pandemic.