Columnist Caroline Gainer weighs in on how changes with her doctors have affected her ability to coordinate care for her COPD ...

Fatigue is one of the most common symptoms of COPD, so it's important to understand what causes it, columnist Caroline Gainer ...

Digital inhalers that allow remote patient monitoring may predict impending exacerbations, or episodes when symptoms of COPD ...

Predicting COPD exacerbations In a pilot study, Drummond and his colleagues examined whether the ProAir Digihaler can help predict an impending COPD exacerbation. The researchers remotely enrolled 55 ...

Marisa holds a Master of Science in cellular and molecular pathology from the University of Pittsburgh, where she studied novel genetic drivers of ovarian cancer. Her areas of expertise include cancer ...

The therapy has been approved in the U.S. and elsewhere as a treatment for other inflammatory diseases in which eosinophils can play a role, including some types of asthma and ANCA-associated ...

While the risk of COPD was highest among traditional cigarette smokers and dual users, e-cigarette users also had a significantly increased risk of COPD over people who’d never used e-cigarettes or ...

I’m also getting more deep sleep, an essential stage of sleep where the body repairs itself. According to the Sleep Foundation, up to 20% of our sleep should be deep sleep. I sleep for about eight ...

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, nearly all of the steel mills in the upper Ohio Valley were fueled by metallurgical coal. That kind of coal is used to make coke, a pure form of carbon that fuels the ...

Fluticasone-salmeterol (brand name, Advair Diskus; GSK) is an inhalation maintenance treatment for breathing difficulties caused by COPD, such as wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing, and chest ...

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