Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We’ve all felt winded when taking the stairs or dealt with a cough from time to time. But if these issues linger, they could be ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung condition that often hides in plain sight. You may think you’re dealing with a common cold, when in reality, your lungs are swollen, irritated ...

COPD symptoms vary depending on the amount of lung damage that has occurred due to inhaled substances, most commonly smoking. Symptoms are usually slow to develop and often don’t appear until there’s ...

(StatePoint) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe. A leading cause of disability and death in the United States, more than 12.5 ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is frequently associated with cardiovascular, metabolic, and psychological diseases, all of which can negatively impact quality of life, exacerbations, and ...

Early diagnosis of COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, increases the quality of life of the patient and the efficacy of available treatments. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now ...

Are you finding that your chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is making it harder to do the things you enjoy? Canceling plans more often? Missing work due to flare-ups? It could mean your ...

“Emphysema is usually a description of images — CT scan or X-ray — and is only one part of the disease of COPD,” says Uddalak Majumdar, MD, pulmonologist at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. COPD is ...

A novel test that looks at mucus proteins may help assess the health of the lungs in people with COPD, according to a new study.