United Health Group’s pharmacy benefit manager, Optum Rx, stopped covering Cole Schmidtknecht’s ‘life-changing’ inhaler, suit ...

Cole Schmidtknecht had chronic asthma since he was a child, and had used a steroid inhaler to control his symptoms for more ...

Cole Schmidtknecht, 22, couldn't pay for his daily inhaler due to the “prohibitively expensive” price increase, but then he ...

Inhaler colors often are used to identify specific types of inhalers (such as blue for rescue inhalers ... (dupilumab), approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2024 for a specific type ...

In early childhood, Schmidtknecht’s asthma meant being tethered to an albuterol emergency inhaler and unexpected ... In exchange, PBMs push the drug manufacturers medications while excluding ...

Inhaler colors often are used to identify specific types of inhalers (such as blue for rescue inhalers) that deliver medication into your lungs to improve breathing. There is no color coding of ...

Objectives Continuous albuterol nebulization is generally administered at 2.5–20 mg/hr at most centers. We examined the effect of high-dose (75 or 150 mg/hr) albuterol on clinical variables in ...

A small proportion of veterans who went from a metered-dose inhaler to a dry-powder inhaler had to revert to the metered-dose inhaler, according to a research letter published in JAMA Network ...