Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Medical Warnings
I just saw a commercial about Advair, which is an asthma medication that treats both causes of asthma- constriction and inflammation. They said that it contains salmeterol, and that (and I quote), “salmeterol may increase the chance of asthma related death.”
Um, doesn’t this seem counterintuitive?
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