In the 1980s, when Stella Kourembanas, MD, began her career in neonatology, she cared for newborns with pulmonary ...

Background Effective management of coexisting heart failure (HF), chronic kidney disease (CKD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus ...

Professor David Denning evaluates timely and accurate diagnosis of Aspergillus infection and the clinical spectrum of ...

Exercise PH — measured by the mPAP/CO slope — may predict survival in patients with normal or mildly elevated pulmonary arterial pressure.

Medically reviewed by Susan Russell, MD The term "smoker's lung" refers to lung damage caused by smoking cigarettes. Over ...

WE WILL SEE SEVERAL IN THE YEAR, AND IT IS ONE OF THE MAJOR CAUSES OF MATERNAL ... almost dying from a pulmonary embolism during childbirth. Aaliyah Walker cherishes the simple moments, from ...

New research suggests that dementia patients can maintain their independence and live healthier lives longer by sticking to simple daily ... is a syndrome that causes a decline in cognitive ...

Emmerdale star Jeff Hordley has told how a simple change to his lifestyle means he is managing to keep his chronic disease in check. The 54-year-old, best known for playing Cain Dingle in the long ...

More than 75% of treated patients in these studies were given long-acting bronchodilators and/or inhaled steroids, which are the standard treatment in COPD. The most accurate method to identify ...

In a landmark meeting half a century ago, William Briscoe used the term COPD. Since then, the pathophysiology and treatment modalities of chronic bronchitis and emphysema filled the textbooks.

More than 11.7 million Americans have been diagnosed with COPD, according to the American Lung Association. But it’s not always easy to tell whether you have it. Some of the symptoms of COPD are ...