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About 4,000 people die each year due to asthma. The poorer the asthma control, the poorer the patients’ quality of life and the higher the risk for emergency department visits and hospitalizations.

The two inhaled treatments — Flovent HFA and Flovent Diskus, two of the most commonly used controller medications for asthma — have been discontinued by manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline.

Yeh says some of her patients have ended up in urgent care or the emergency room because their asthma got so bad. That’s what happened to 9-year-old Trey Currie, who lives in Philadelphia.

In the first five months this school year, 126 schools in 33 counties used state-funded emergency asthma medication 265 times. Most students were then able to return to class.

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Those citing financial hardship had nearly double the odds of an asthma attack and a more than 60% heightened risk of visiting emergency care than those for whom cost wasn't a factor.