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

Fatigue is one of the most common symptoms of COPD, so it's important to understand what causes it, columnist Caroline Gainer says.

That’s according to data from a Phase 4 observational pilot study (NCT05241288) that followed 40 COPD patients with poor lung function and recurrent exacerbations. In the two weeks before an ...

Anxiety, research shows, makes COPD symptoms worse. As a child, I recognized the connection between nature and stress relief.As an adult, the busy life of being a teacher (and the wife of a teacher) ...

Although there is no cure for COPD yet, there are several approved treatments that can help manage the disease and ease symptoms. Learn more about some of the specific therapies used to treat this ...

The data also demonstrated that certain genetic variants determine how one’s gene expression responds to environmental stimuli. “Our findings demonstrate how the local environment directly affects ...

The study, “E-cigarette Use and Incident Cardiometabolic Conditions in the All of Us Research Program,” was published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research. COPD is a progressive, inflammatory lung condition ...

Benralizumab (MEDI-563) is an investigational subcutaneous injection therapy for the treatment of asthma and COPD. It was studied in two Phase 3 trials, but the results showed that it failed to lower ...

It’s not uncommon for those of us with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to suffer from cachexia, or wasting disease.A 2019 study found that people with cachexia or pre-cachexia had a ...

Note: This is the first part of a three-part series written in collaboration with respiratory therapist Mark W. Mangus Sr., RRT, RPFT, FAARC, and oxygen expert Ryan Diesem. One of the more hotly ...