That's according to the head of the Allergy and Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics.

Nancy Sander says, there is no patient education, monitoring, nor financial assistance to pay for the new expensive drugs.

The government-mandated switch means that inhalers that use the old CFC-propellants are no longer being made as of December 2008.

The new HFA-inhalers also differ in feel, force and taste, and in how they're primed and cleaned.

The groups says, the change has resulted in patient anxiety and millions of inhaler-users have yet to switch.

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New research may hold the answer for people with borderline high blood pressure.

a new Spanish study shows... a daily aspirin can control prehypertension, but only if it is taken at bedtime.

Researchers say, an aspirin taken every morning didn't lower the blood pressure of prehypertensive people.

Why.... is unclear.,

Prehypertension is defined as blood pressure just below the 140/90 level.

It's a known warning sign of future risk of heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular problems.

The findings were reported today at the American Society of Hypertension annual meeting, in New Orleans.

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Doctors may need to do something more than hand out a prescription to lower heart disease risks in overweight individuals."

A new study suggests that daily doses of statins and blood pressure medications will not be enough to prevent heart disease among the growing number of overweight or obese Baby Boomers.

The simple truth, experts say, people must shed the pounds.

The Wake Forest University research involved more than 6,800 men and women aged 45 to 84.

It revealed an even greater prevalence of overweight and obesity than shown in similar studies done five years earlier.

Researchers fear as obesity increases so will heart disease rates.