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Environomics

Enviro-Friendly Asthma Inhalers Emerge, But Slowly

By August West | Contributing Editor - Vol. 1, No. 1. , 2000

Environmentally friendly propellants may soon replace the ozone-eating chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in metered dose inhalers used for asthma medications. CFC-free formulations of albuterol and salbutamol, two common asthma drugs, are already available for testing, but since the new propellants change the amounts of drug delivered to the lungs, it may be a few years before drug manufacturers release these new products to the market.

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CleanMed 2001: Hospital Administrators See the Green Light

By Janet Brown | Staff Writer - Vol. 2, No. 3. , 2001

Hospital administrators are finally starting to reckon with the damaging effects their institutions can have on the environment. Janet Brown, HPC’s resident medical environmentalist, reports from CleanMed, the nation’s largest conference dedicated to health care and ecology.

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