Advair, the world's best-selling asthma medication packaged in that little purple puck, apparently does more harm than good for many asthma patients. Shelley Salpeter, a clinical professor of medicine at Stanford University, says, "[Advair and Servent] make asthma worse . . . If we got these drugs off the market, we could prevent 4,000 deaths a year."

Read the Forbes article "Trouble Breathing" for more information about the possible dangers of asthma medication and the pending lawsuits against Advair's maker, GlaxoSmithkline.

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