The current spotlight on the human metapneumovirus (HMPV) — discovered for the first time in 2001 — a longstanding ...

Bill includes oversight reforms to improve affordability of and access to prescription drugs (Framingham—01/07/2025)—On New Year’s Eve the Massachusetts Legislature passed comprehensive reforms to ...

Cases of the respiratory virus known as HMPV - which has symptoms similar to those of the common cold, flu, and Covid-19 - have been surging in China, prompting fears that another global pandemic is ...

China faces a surge in respiratory infections, likely linked to Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV), causing overcrowded hospitals.

A POPULAR nasal spray used to tackle a blocked nose may trigger Parkinson’s disease-like symptoms, a doctor has warned. Pseudoephedrine, a medicine found in many cold and flu medicines like ...

This can be dangerous, especially in the case of rescue inhalers that are used to treat asthma symptoms in an emergency. If your inhaler has a dose counter, this eliminates all the guesswork and ...

Asthma inhalers are hand-held devices that allow you to inhale a dose of medication to ... With each click or twist, an automated counter tells you how many doses are left. Examples of DPIs include ...

Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed removing phenylephrine -- an active ingredient in hundreds of over-the-counter medications ... of the Allergy & Asthma Medical Group ...

To mitigate the worst of her asthma symptoms, she instead relied on an insufficient patchwork of over-the-counter medications, borrowed rescue inhalers from her colleagues and a stock of my own ...

National asthma guidelines argue against such self-treatment as too risky and less effective than albuterol. The government will allow sale of those over-the-counter inhalers until December 2011 as ...