Asthma inhalers to go 'green' on Dec. 31

December 1, 2008 By LAURAN NEERGAARD , AP Medical Writer

(AP) -- Last warning: Asthma inhalers go "green" on Dec. 31, forcing patients still using the old-fashioned kind to make a pricey and even confusing switch. The medicine inside these rescue inhalers - the albuterol that quickly opens airways during an asthma attack - isn't changing. But the chemicals used to puff that drug into your lungs are.

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