Doctors use stages to describe how severe your COPD is. This system is called the GOLD staging or grading ... the first stage can be easy to miss. COPD treatment goal is to help you breathe ...

Treatment varies widely, with GOLD (Global Initiative for Chronic ... and have several novel classes of drugs for COPD in development (Table 1), including inhibitors of leukotriene B 4 receptors ...

People with COPD experience more falls and related injuries requiring medical care when using common fall-risk increasing drugs, according to a recent study. The research is published in Chronic ...