A nationwide shortage of the asthma medication albuterol has been ongoing since last fall and experts fear it's only expected to get worse. Albuterol can be taken in several forms but it's the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Albuterol is a fast-acting medication that's typically used in emergency situations to treat asthma in children. (Photo: Getty ...

LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- An ongoing shortage of a medicine commonly used to treat people with breathing problems is expected to get worse after a major supplier to US hospitals shut down last week, CNN ...

Time is running out for patients who use albuterol inhalers to replace those propelled by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) with ones that rely on eco-friendly hydrofluoroalkane (HFA). After December 31, ...

A nationwide shortage of the asthma medication albuterol has been ongoing since last fall and experts fear it's only expected to get worse. Albuterol can be taken in several forms but it's the ...

Inhalers using chlorofluorocarbons to dispense the drug albuterol will be banned at the end of 2008, the Food and Drug Administration said. Chlorofluorocarbons, once widely used as aerosol propellants ...

(CNN) – Liquid albuterol is a medicine commonly used to treat people with breathing problems, but the drug has been in short supply, and the shortage is expected to get worse. Albuterol has been on ...

For many years, the standard treatment for asthma was an inhaler with a medication called albuterol. Only if that wasn’t enough would additional medicines be added. If symptoms became especially bad, ...