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

Dr. Sean Moran from Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen spoke about how to keep safe during extreme winter weather. Dr ...

To diagnose chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), doctors typically use spirometry to measure your lung function. They usually also perform other tests to monitor the damage to your lungs.

Previous work indicates that the battery has excellent inter-observer reliability, test–retest reliability and predictive validity.42–44 We used emergency department visits and hospitalisation for ...

Patients with acute COPD exacerbations are seen frequently in the emergency department (ED). Acute exacerbations are associated with significant morbidity, mortality and health care expenditures.

COPD is a progressive, irreversible inflammatory disease of the lungs that makes it difficult to breathe. Cigarette smoking is the most common cause of COPD. Common symptoms include a persistent cough ...

The 5th edition of Manipal Hospital Old Airport Road's flagship workshop series, Handling Unexpected Emergencies (HUE), ...

Inhalers for COPD provide steroids, bronchodilators, or combination drugs. The three types differ in the mechanism by which the medication is inhaled and have different instructions for use.

On New Year’s Eve, thousands of doctors and nurses across Vietnam work tirelessly in emergency wards, often skipping year-end ...

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

with significant reductions in COPD-related presentations to the hospital’s emergency department and readmission rates. Since the commencement of the Community and Acute Respiratory Excellence ...