Cost of asthma inhalers can take breath away

KANSAS CITY, Mo. --   This is high time of year for asthma trouble, and if that doesn't take patients' breath away, the cost of their medicines can.
Mallory Beers uses an inhaler twice a day to help prevent asthma attacks.
"If it wasn't for her having her medication, she'd be really, really sick," said Jeanne Burrus, her mother.....

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Health services slammed after asthma woman's death

A grieving mother says she still has unanswered questions after a coroner recorded a verdict of natural causes concerning her daughter's death.
Fitness instructor Caroline McCarthy of Indian Queens, was pronounced dead at 12.07pm on January 12, but an inquest at Truro Coroners' Court held on Monday heard that she could have died up to eight hours earlier.....

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New Study Finds Steroid For Acute Asthma Attacks Helps Patients, Parents And Hospitals

In this edition of Vital Signs, treating children with asthma. Doctors usually choose between two steroids to treat acute attacks that require a hospital stay. But a new study in the "Journal of Pediatrics" found one of the steroids – dexamethasone -- had additional benefits for hospitals, patients and their parents.....

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