Chronic obstructive lung disease, also known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), is a general term for a group ...

At one time, we distinguished different types of COPD, emphysema and chronic bronchitis. All patients with COPD have an element of each, although one component will usually predominate in the ...

The relationship between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and chronic bronchitis (CB) is important, significant and overlapping in nature. This review will analyze the relationship ...

Changes in people’s voices recoded on a smartphone can signal a serious flare up in symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

Overheard: “My grandmother has emphysema and COPD – how unlucky is that?!” Unlucky, perhaps – but not unlikely. “The real way to think of it is that COPD as a category can be caused by many different ...

Dupixent may help some people with inadequately controlled COPD who have a type of lung inflammation that worsens symptoms.

Papers published in the MEDLINE database, the Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences Database, and EMBASE were searched (up to January 2009) with key words including "COPD ...

A variety of progressive lung diseases are grouped under the label COPD. Emphysema and chronic bronchitis are two of the conditions included together under the term chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

A flare-up in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can be predicted through changes in a person's voice, a new study ...

Bronchitis is a respiratory disease in which there is an inflammation of the mucous membranes of the bronchi (airway passages of lungs). This causes breathlessness and cough spells. If there is ...

Bronchitis is inflammation of the inner mucus lining of the bronchial tubes in the lungs. A nagging cough is one of the most prevalent bronchitis symptoms. A cough usually starts as dry but ...