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Asthma sufferers who use beta-agonist inhalers run twice the risk of dying from a heart condition than those using other treatments. ...
Fenoterol, the beta-agonist, has been confirmed as the cause of the epidemic of deaths among asthma sufferers in New Zealand. ...
Certain asthma drugs, particularly those used in inhalants, could be contributing to the increase in the number of deaths from asthma. ...
Regular use of beta agonists like inhaled salbutamol doubles a person's sensitivity to an allergen and creates tolerance to the drug, thus reducing its effectiveness. ...
Drugs used for the past 20 years to arrest premature labour do nothing to help improve birth weight or perinatal mortality, a Canadian study group has discovered. ...
Who reads drug warnings? Not doctors, it seems. Doctors and obstetricians in particular have been giving pregnant women injections of Bricanyl (terbutaline sulphate) to help them go to full term ...
Drugs regulators are our caped crusaders. They stand on guard, ever vigilant, for any problems with prescription drugs, and then they swoop, without fear and favour, on our behalf. The miscreant is removed, and we can again sleep safely in our beds...
Many authorities in medicine admit that most of the drug therapies for asthma are making the problem worse. ...
Until the 1950s asthma was not thought to be a life threatening condition. Thus the Oxford Medicine in 1920 said: "Prognosis is excellent. The sensitive type probably never dies in an attack and t ...