"The system is really getting in the way," said a pediatric pulmonologist. After many trips to the doctor's office, five-year-old Burton Hayes's asthma was finally under control with a medication ...

Editor’s Note: Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez is a primary care pediatrician, director of pediatric telemedicine and assistant professor of pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

In January 2024, GSK discontinued making Flovent, one of the most commonly prescribed inhaled asthma maintenance medications in the U.S. Although the company continues to make a generic medication ...

Fill your prescription for Flovent while you still can, and start talking to your doctor and insurance company about options. There are other asthma drugs, if that seems like the best choice for you.

Trey used to use Flovent to control his asthma, but his mother Shante Currie says they were no longer able to get the medication after it was discontinued. Then in late April, Trey had an asthma ...

The doctors did not want to send Trey home without asthma medication, but because Flovent was no longer available, it took them two days to work out an alternative that her insurance plan would cover.

Flovent HFA, GSK’s brand name ... pocket for an air chamber to help direct the medication into Hamilton’s lungs. The scramble for alternative asthma treatments puts significant demands on ...

Flovent, one of the most commonly prescribed childhood asthma medications, is no longer being manufactured in the United States. GSK, the pharmaceutical company that made it, took if off the ...