Expert pulmonologists share essential guidelines on distinguishing normal coughs from dangerous ones, plus effective home ...

“Emphysema makes it hard to breathe air out of your lungs as it affects the tiny air sacs at the end of the airways where ...

Ohtuvayre showed significant improvement in lung function by 12 weeks. Follow-up analyses showed that Ohtuvayre had long-term ...

Emphysema is a chronic lung condition that affects millions of people worldwide and can make everyday activities such as ...

The problem with COPD is you have obstruction to air flow, so most patients have a chronic cough, have some shortness of breath, have some wheezing. And periodically they will have what we call an ...

Physicians recommend that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) quit smoking and use steroids, antibiotics and other drugs to manage the sometimes debilitating symptoms. However, ...

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UCLA Health also recommends making a doctor’s appointment if your cough still interferes with your ability to sleep or go to work after several weeks. “Your symptoms shouldn’t worsen,” Russell Buhr, M ...

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic interstitial lung disease characterized by progressive scarring of lung ...

There’s also something called a subacute cough, which can last from three to eight weeks, says Jairo Barrantes-Perez, M.D., assistant professor of pulmonary medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.