Columnist Caroline Gainer weighs in on how changes with her doctors have affected her ability to coordinate care for her COPD ...

Some types of fatigue are more easily treated than others, such as muscle fatigue, which can be helped by stretching and rest. Another type of fatigue, which can also be considered physical, is caused ...

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

While the risk of COPD was highest among traditional cigarette smokers and dual users, e-cigarette users also had a significantly increased risk of COPD over people who’d never used e-cigarettes or ...

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, nearly all of the steel mills in the upper Ohio Valley were fueled by metallurgical coal. That kind of coal is used to make coke, a pure form of carbon that fuels the ...

Abrysvo was already cleared in the U.S. for adults older than 60 and pregnant people at 32-36 weeks of gestation to protect infants from birth to age 6 months. With the new authorization, Abrysvo ...

The Verona Pharma therapy, with a list price of $2,950 for a monthly supply, was cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in June as an inhaled maintenance therapy for adults with COPD. “We ...

The reason I’m telling you about cachexia is personal. My normal weight for 30 years was 113 pounds. The nurse in my doctor’s office once said that if the scales didn’t show 113 when I got on them, ...

It is sold as Spiriva HandiHaler, a dry powder inhaler approved in 2004, or as Spiriva Respimat, an inhalation spray approved in 2014. The Phase 4 trial — a type of study conducted after a medication ...

People with COPD may not look sick unless we’re on oxygen, like I am, so it might be difficult to understand why we have to stay at home or cancel plans. I have not lost friendships because of COPD ...

Long-term depression data were collected from these patients via a questionnaire in four waves — baseline, or study’s start (2011-2015); follow-up 1 (2015-2018); Spring 2020 (around the pandemic’s ...