All of them can make you feel breathless. Doctors use stages to describe how severe your COPD is. This system is called the GOLD staging or grading system. Your grade will affect what treatment you ...

Sep. 22—(Family Features) Take a deep breath. Now ask yourself: When was the last time you thought about breathing? For people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), breathing is often ...

Finding out that you or a loved one has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can feel overwhelming. But the good news is that simple strategies for COPD self-care, along with following your ...

Adults hospitalized for acute COPD exacerbation faced elevated odds for all-cause mortality and ICU admission if they had end-stage renal disease and were on dialysis, according to data presented at ...

Adding dupilumab (Dupixent) to triple therapy reduced exacerbations and improved lung function for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients with blood eosinophil evidence of type 2 ...

Hypercapnic patients were best separated from normocapnic patients using thresholds for FVC% of 56% predicted and 33% predicted for FEV1%. Hypercapnia in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

In case of an exacerbation of COPD or advanced-stage COPD, is routine use of steroids indicated or not? And if indicated, what is the correct dose and route of administration? Professor of Medicine, ...

Inhaled chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) medications prescribed before surgery in patients with early-stage non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) were associated with both short- and ...

GSK’s respiratory drug lineup spans a newly approved product for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as well as therapeutic candidates in various stages of clinical development for treating this ...