COPD is a progressive lung disease with mild symptoms in the early stages that gradually worsen. Early diagnosis and treatment can help preserve lung function. People with COPD often have trouble ...

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

In this stage, your symptoms are most likely to be very mild. Your FEV1 falls ... Regular use of spirometry for COPD progression tracking is important for COPD treatment. Each stage comes with ...

There is no evidence that Oz or Snoop Dogg has ever developed or advertised any over-the-counter COPD treatment. David Mannino, chief medical officer and co-founder of the COPD Foundation ...

“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 ...

This was in part because they were more likely to smoke than women, and tobacco products are the leading cause of COPD in the U.S. But in the past 25 years, women have overtaken men as the primary ...

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

These investigators found that mild COPD was associated with considerable socioeconomic and clinical burdens compared with matched controls without COPD. Even mild COPD was associated with ...

A recent trial showed that nicotinamide riboside supplementation might reduce airway inflammation in patients with COPD who ...

The Spanish COPD guidelines recommend treatment of the mixed COPD–asthma phenotype with ICS and a long-acting bronchodilator (LABD) as a first option to improve lung function, respiratory ...

Tezepelumab did not significantly decrease moderate or severe COPD exacerbations compared with placebo, the COURSE trial found.

After waking up from the procedure, he told me he could take full breaths for the first time in years,” Dr. Mark Sigler said of one patient.