COPD Stories
- Early detection can improve treatment outcomes for lung diseases such as asthma, COPD, and lung cancer. Here are the warning signs you should watch out for.
- Smoking puts you more at risk for developing a deadly lung disease, but your genes also play a huge role.
- Breathlessness could be more serious than you think. What the symptoms may mean.
- A new study estimates that pictorial warnings on cigarette packaging in the US would improve overall health of both adults and infants.
- You don't have to be a smoker to develop COPD; this November take time to familiarize yourself with the early signs and symptoms of this condition.
- New study finds cigarette smoke hampers the efficacy of certain lung medications.
- The teach-to-goal method improves asthma and COPD patients' use of rescue inhalers, finds a new study.
- Children whose mothers smoke have an increased likelihood of developing COPD in adulthood: study.
- Emphysema patients can improve their exercise capacity in six months with this minimally invasive intervention.
- Young children are growing up with lung damage from one family of pesticides that can be as harmful as cigarette smoke.
- A decreasing trend in age-standardized death rates occurred for heart disease, cancer, stroke, unintentional injuries, and diabetes between 1969 and 2013 in the U.S.
- GlaxoSmithKline's inhaled medicine Breo failed to prolong life in patients with chronic respiratory disease in a high-stakes clinical trial of 16,500 people, torpedoing hopes of a sales boost for the drug.