Asthmatics receive warning over drug risk

ASTHMA sufferers have been warned that they could be risking their lives by using drugs that treat the most severe form of the disease.

It is reckoned that around 30% of the estimated 470,000 people with asthma in Ireland may be at an increased risk of severe attacks and even death if they use a popular long-acting drug on its own.

Asthma experts have called on the European Medicines Agency to warn against the danger of long-acting beta-agonist (LABA) drugs.