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 ...
Hyperinflation of the lungs is a common complication of c hronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It happens when too much air gets trapped inside your lungs. When you can’t exhale properly, ...
David Mannino is co-founder and chief medical officer of the COPD Foundation. He's an internal medicine doctor with a specialty in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine at University of ...
COPD Infection Management and Mitigation Strategies: Focusing on Diagnostics and Targeted Treatments
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Understanding COPD _ Causes, signs, symptoms and treatments
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FDA Greenlights Nucala as New Treatment for COPD
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 ...
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