Effective treatment often requires you to take medications to better manage symptoms or stop taking medications if a doctor advises that you no longer need them. Finding the right dosages and ...

As the “Swiss Army knife of bacteria,” methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is quite the problematic organism, said John Osiecki, PhD. Among the diverse group of gram-positive bacteria ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

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 ...

Pulmonary, or lung, infarction (PI) refers to the death of lung tissue due to a lack of blood supply. Symptoms include chest pain and coughing up blood. It usually stems from another health issue, ...

Pulmonary hypertension is traditionally defined as a mean pulmonary artery pressure of ≥25 mmHg when a patient is at rest, though a mean pressure of >20 mm Hg is considered to be abnormal and may ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a burgeoning global problem that is not receiving the attention it deserves from the healthcare community, governments and ...

The FDA approved Ohtuvayre (ensifentrine) as a maintenance therapy for COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). The medication works as both a bronchodilator and an anti-inflammatory to ease ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Nucala (mepolizumab) as an add-on maintenance treatment for adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that remains inadequately ...

Maurene Comey, prosecutor in Epstein and Combs cases and daughter of former FBI director, sues after being fired Sofía ...