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What seemed to be a straightforward swap has left some doctors, nurses and parents of children with asthma scrambling for medications to care for young patients.
Flovent, one of the most commonly prescribed childhood asthma medications, is no longer being manufactured in the United States. GSK, the pharmaceutical company that made it, took if off the shelves January 1 and replaced it with an identical generic version, fluticasone.