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Switch to 'green' asthma inhalers is near

Published December 1, 2008, 10:04 pm, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

By LAURAN NEERGAARD WASHINGTON — Last warning: Asthma inhalers go "green" on Dec. 31, forcing patients still using the old-fashioned kind to make a pricey and even confusing switch. The medicine inside these rescue inhalers — the albuterol that quickly opens airways during an asthma attack — isn’t changing. But the chemicals used to puff that drug into your lungs are. No more ...

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