Information for Healthcare Professionals (Drugs) Long-Acting Beta-Agonists (LABAs)

FDA Drug Info Rounds is a series of training videos for practicing clinical and community pharmacists. Drug Info Rounds is brought to you by pharmacists in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), Office of Communications (OCOMM), Division of Drug Information (DDI). Pharmacists in DDI answer hundreds of questions everyday about drug products and FDA actions. Our goal is to provide important and timely drug information to pharmacists so they can help patients make better medication decisions.

In this second video, FDA Drug Info Rounds pharmacists discuss the new recommendations in the drug labels of Long-Acting Beta-Agonists (LABAs), and provide ways pharmacists can help patients use LABAs safely in the treatment of asthma. The agency required manufacturers to revise their drug labels because of an increased risk of severe exacerbation of asthma symptoms, leading to hospitalizations, in pediatric and adult patients, as well as death in some patients using LABAs for the treatment of asthma.

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Information for Healthcare Professionals (Drugs) Long-Acting Beta-Agonists (LABAs)