We've all felt winded when taking the stairs or dealt with a cough from time to time. But if these issues linger, they could ...

Explore strategies for controlling COPD and improving health, with a focus on management and lifestyle changes.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other lower respiratory diseases are among leading causes of U.S. deaths per ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can result from chronic bronchitis or emphysema. Some people may also have COPD and asthma, which can worsen both conditions. Chronic obstructive ...

People with COPD experience more falls and related injuries requiring medical care when using common fall-risk increasing ...

Injurious falls are common among people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the two years before de ...

“Patients with mild-to-moderate COPD who have low exercise tolerance are likely to experience poor respiratory health outcomes,” the investigators concluded. “Exercise tolerance may be considered one ...

How common is it?Despite being a common disease, many people are unaware of exactly what it is. “COPD affects 1.7 million people in this country, although around 600,000 are believed to be ...

If these trials confirm the findings, benralizumab could become the first new therapy approved for eosinophilic exacerbations ...

Columnist Caroline Gainer explains how cold weather aggravates her COPD and shares the methods she uses to protect her lungs ...

If a threshold of 10% risk of COPD was used to make spirometry referrals, the addition of the polygenic risk score correctly ...

People with COPD experience more falls and related injuries requiring medical care when using common fall-risk increasing drugs, according to a new study.