Because chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients often struggle to breathe — and that struggle requires a lot of energy — weight loss and malnutrition can be side effects of the disease.

An open letter to the medical community: Here’s a question: If you believe you may have inadvertently stumbled upon a cure for a disease previously thought to be incurable, what would you do? Share ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I have COPD, and my doctor explains that the trouble is that my lungs do not expel the full amount of the breath I take in. This prevents the full oxygen intake from my breath. My ...

Meilan King Han, MD, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan, discusses how her practice has altered patient care to adapt to the ongoing pandemic and challenges patients with ...

(StatePoint) Managing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is always important, and especially so right now, as individuals living with a chronic lung disease are at a higher risk of severe ...

Nonpharmacological strategies that can help engage patients to remain adherent to therapies used to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Neil Minkoff, MD: One of the other things that we ...

The recent Medscape article "Long-term Management -- How Is My COPD Patient Doing?" [1] has several crucial inaccuracies. The article states: "A recent, large, multicenter, multinational, ...

Bhatt’s study, "Dupilumab for COPD with Type 2 Inflammation Indicated by Eosinophil Counts,” was recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Bhatt and colleagues conducted a multicenter ...

One random day of the year. One random shift at the station. One good torrential rain and storm. One cough. One bronchoscope. One grouping of molds, in my lungs. One diagnosis, COPD. How? Did someone ...

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Patients experiencing the symptoms of a chronic condition often feel a sense of relief when their doctor provides a diagnosis. They are no longer left to wonder what’s wrong — there’s a name for what ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman, diagnosed with COPD, didn’t think she’d live another five years, but she’s still beating the odds 16 years later. (Photo: ...