Columnist Caroline Gainer weighs in on how changes with her doctors have affected her ability to coordinate care for her COPD ...

Some types of fatigue are more easily treated than others, such as muscle fatigue, which can be helped by stretching and rest. Another type of fatigue, which can also be considered physical, is caused ...

Digital inhalers that allow remote patient monitoring may predict impending exacerbations, or episodes when symptoms of COPD ...

Predicting COPD exacerbations In a pilot study, Drummond and his colleagues examined whether the ProAir Digihaler can help predict an impending COPD exacerbation. The researchers remotely enrolled 55 ...

In my case, I had major depressive disorder, and I believe my smile and sunny personality hid my symptoms from my healthcare team. I discussed some issues with my family doctor, who was also my late ...

While the risk of COPD was highest among traditional cigarette smokers and dual users, e-cigarette users also had a significantly increased risk of COPD over people who’d never used e-cigarettes or ...

I’m also getting more deep sleep, an essential stage of sleep where the body repairs itself. According to the Sleep Foundation, up to 20% of our sleep should be deep sleep. I sleep for about eight ...

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, nearly all of the steel mills in the upper Ohio Valley were fueled by metallurgical coal. That kind of coal is used to make coke, a pure form of carbon that fuels the ...

Abrysvo was already cleared in the U.S. for adults older than 60 and pregnant people at 32-36 weeks of gestation to protect infants from birth to age 6 months. With the new authorization, Abrysvo ...

Dupixent approval for COPD ‘represents new hope’ for patients Regeneron also is pleased by Dupixent’s approval for this new indication, according to George D. Yancopoulos, MD, PhD, board co-chair, ...

The Verona Pharma therapy, with a list price of $2,950 for a monthly supply, was cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in June as an inhaled maintenance therapy for adults with COPD. “We ...