Awareness Month, a time to bring attention to one of the leading causes of illness and death in the United States — yet one ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a group of diseases that affect the lungs. The disease makes it difficult to breath and progressively gets worse. About 15 million Americans have been ...

Few situations are more unsettling than not being able to breathe. Whether from a momentary injury that knocks the wind out of you, swimming underwater for too long or recovering after sprinting at ...

COPD is a disease that damages your lungs over time. It may start with mild symptoms and then get worse. Treatment can help symptoms and slow disease progression. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

If you are a COPD patient you may be at risk of flare-ups in the colder months. Check out the expert-approved tips which ...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, a lung and airway disease, is mired in myths. Pulmonologist Dr Raja Dhar shares COPD ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is no longer a condition that just affects older smokers. Its rising cases ...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is an umbrella term for chronic lung conditions including chronic bronchitis and non-reversible asthma-like symptoms. As around 90% of people with COPD ...

Zein became aware of alcohol’s impact on COPD a few years ago. In a paper published in 2021, Zein and colleagues found that ...

While smoking has long been acknowledged as the most common cause for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), recent research has found that non-smokers can also be susceptible to the disease.

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) happens when you repeatedly stop breathing during sleep. These pauses are temporary, but they’ll partially wake you up. This can make it difficult to get a good night’s ...