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Lindsey Lohan s asthma attack: A wake-up call on albuterol?

Posted on June 03, 2008

I don t really know if Lindsey Lohan had an asthma attack at 30,000 feet, or whether she spent two hours in an LA emergency room or had to be admitted for treatment, because the news reports are conflicting and unclear as of this writing. But I do know that millions of Americans suffer acute asthma attacks every year (11 million during each year between 1997 and 2004), that they often require emergency room treatment (1.8 million asthma ER visits for each year between 2001 and 2003), and hospitalization (an average of 500,000 hospital admissions each year). Worse yet, there were about 4,20...

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