Obstructive lung diseases like COPD cause trouble when you're exhaling air. Restrictive lung diseases like pulmonary fibrosis make it harder to inhale air, reducing total lung capacity. There are two ...

COPD is a group of progressive lung diseases that includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Despite affecting an estimated 32 million people in the United States, as many as half are unaware they ...

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 ...

India has the second-highest incidence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (CoPD) in the world, after China. What you need to know about CoPD and the cost of treatment for the chronic lung ...

This chronic respiratory disease most commonly affects women aged 65 and older. But there are ways to manage the symptoms and slow down its progression. In the past, chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

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If you’re not careful, combating dry winter air could put a whole new problem on your plate this winter. When temperatures ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) isn’t contagious. But people with COPD can transmit other infections when they cough. They may also have a greater risk of serious illness from a ...

The most common side effects of NUCALA include: headache, injection site reactions (pain, redness, swelling, itching, or a ...

A shock survey by charity Asthma + Lung UK reveals that more than 90% of people with COPD are receiving inadequate care ...

Credit: Getty Images Women with COPD, asthma, and OSA may go undiagnosed or without proper care because their symptomatology differs from the classic male presentation. Despite decades of advances in ...

Singing can improve the quality of life of people with lung disease and help reduce their symptoms, according to a gold-standard randomzed-controlled trial presented at the European Respiratory ...