David Mannino is co-founder and chief medical officer of the COPD Foundation. He's an internal medicine doctor with a specialty in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine at University of ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, hasn’t seen any novel drugs in more than a decade. The FDA has approved a new inhalable medication whose innovation brings patients a dual approach to ...

COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, is a group of life-changing lung diseases that include emphysema and chronic bronchitis. 1 Those living with COPD can experience coughing, wheezing, ...

The findings provide further support of recommendations in the clinical guidelines to favor one therapy over the other. Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) being treated with ...

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Effective treatment often requires you to take medications to better manage symptoms or stop taking medications if a doctor advises that you no longer need them. Finding the right dosages and ...

(BPT) - Did you know that by the time many people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are diagnosed by a doctor, their lung function (which is the amount of and speed air can be inhaled ...