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Medical News State & National News Certain Inhalers Phased Out.
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Adobe Flash Player not installed or older than 9.0.115!  Those Metered Dose Inhalers (MDI's) will be gradually phased out from distribution, some as early as this June 14, 2010, because of the CFC's they contain. CFC's (ChloroFluoroCarbons) as they are known, are the vehicle used to push the medication into the lungs as one inhales. Which 7 MDI products will be deleted? CFC's have long been determined harmful due to the assertion they deplete the ozone layer that absorbs the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays. Patients using the inhalers scheduled to be phased out should talk to their health care professional including Grand Rapids Physicians about switching to one of several alternative treatments currently available. Until then, patients should continue using their current inhaler medication for Asthma and COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). “During this transition, the FDA wants to ensure that patients have access to safe and effective alternative medications to treat their asthma or COPD,” said Badrul Chowdhury, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Rheumatology Products in FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. “We are currently working with professional societies and patient organizations to make sure patients understand which products will no longer be available and have information on which alternative medication might work best for them.” In aiming to protect from the potentially negative effects of depleting the ozone layer, miles above the earth, the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and the U.S. Clean Air Act is an international agreement to ban products containing CFC's as far back as the late 1970s. Certain limited use CFC's have been allowed for MDIs but that is now being enforced throught the phase out.
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