Popular asthma drugs bring severe warning

Courtesy Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Health and Fitness  Sat, 12/06/2008 - 01:26

WASHINGTON -- Two federal drug officials have concluded that asthma sufferers risk death if they continue to use four hugely popular asthma drugs -- Advair, Symbicort, Serevent and Foradil.


 

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