A FORMER ambulance technician has raised concerns over a shortage of potentially life-saving medication used to treat severe lung conditions. The Southend resident, 60, was forced to give up his ...

Doctors have been told to ration a lifesaving drug used in treating serious cases of asthma, emphysema and bronchitis. A UK-wide shortage of the liquid form of salbutamol, used to keep patients who ...

It comes as a tablet, capsule and syrup to take by mouth, on an empty stomach. It also comes as a solution for injection to be administered by a healthcare provider either into the large muscle or ...

Paramedics are being hampered treating patients suffering life-threatening conditions such as severe asthma attacks and cardiac arrest due to fears they could contract COVID-19. Some ambulance ...