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Asthma

FDA Alert – Stolen Advair Inhalers Sold at Pharmacies

July 16, 2010

If you’ve been reading my blog for any bit of time then you’re aware that my daughter has asthma. After exhibiting the warned neuropsychiatric side effects of Singulair, she was switched to Advair to control her asthma. I just received an alert from the FDA that batches of Advair that were stolen ended up being [...]

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The H1N1 Fairy has Visited the Mindless Mommy Household

October 13, 2009

With all her germy sparkliness, the H1N1 Fairy has visited the Mindless Mommy household – not once, but twice. While on a flight to Atlanta last weekend, I wrote about my daughter’s experience with H1N1, Asthma, and a Severe Case of Croup. Last week was relatively quiet in our house but Alexander ended up getting [...]

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Super Nanny Supports Asthma Education Campaign

September 28, 2009

If you were only to look at the title of this post, Super Nanny Supports Asthma Education Campaign, then you’d likely think that this would be a positive post helping raise awareness about asthma. However, the new educational campaign – ASTHMyths, which is sponsored by the Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA), is [...]

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FDA Warns Against Use of Certain Asthma Medications Due to Tampering

September 18, 2009

On September 17, 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advised consumers not to use certain respiratory medications purchased after Sept. 8, 2009 and manufactured by Dey L.P., a subsidiary of Mylan Inc., because the medications might have been part of a shipment being transported on a tractor-trailer stolen in Tampa, Fla., on Sept. [...]

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FDA Safety Alert Regarding Xolair, an Asthma Medication

July 16, 2009

FDA is evaluating interim safety findings from an ongoing study of Xolair (omalizumab) that suggests an increased number of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular adverse events in a group of patients using Xolair compared to a group of patients not given the drug (control group). Xolair is approved for use by adults and adolescents (12 years of [...]

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FDA Acknowledges Neuropsychiatric Side Effects of Singulair

June 17, 2009

A big thank you to Jenna of Parents United for Pharmaceutical Safety and Accountability for the FDA update on the negative side effects that children on Singulair experienced (read Asthma, Singulair and Depression for our story). Updated Information on Leukotriene Inhibitors: Montelukast (marketed as Singulair), Zafirlukast (marketed as Accolate), and Zileuton (marketed as Zyflo and [...]

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Another Look at Asthma and Car Pollution

April 15, 2009

In February, I posted an article that looks at traffic pollution causing genetic changes in the womb that may lead to asthma. Today, I ran across an article on Reuters that discusses a study that examined a link between poor lung function among adult asthmatics that lived near a road with heavy traffic. In a [...]

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