Many of us with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have received medical devices to help with our breathing. At first, it seemed to me that some of these devices worked better than others.
Caroline Gainer is from West Virginia, the state with the highest rate of COPD in the United States. She was diagnosed with moderate-to-severe COPD in 2013 after a pneumothorax (lung collapse). After ...
COPD is among the leading causes of death in industrialized countries, and new pharmacological treatments are being developed to help patients with this disease. But a spectrum of non-pharmacological ...
Chest CT scans are done in medical imaging facilities or in hospitals by trained personnel. Before the test, you may be asked not to eat or drink anything to ensure clear images, and you should wear ...
I usually come away from my yearly wellness appointment feeling secure in my future, even though I have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). That’s not the case this year; in fact, some of ...
CHF 5993, an investigative triple combination treatment, is fixed-dose and fine-particle inhalation therapy consisting of beclomethasone dipropionate (BDP), formoterol fumerate (FF) and glycopyrronium ...