All of them can make you feel breathless. Doctors use stages to describe how severe your COPD is. This system is called the GOLD staging or grading system. Your grade will affect what treatment you ...

COPD symptoms vary depending on the amount of lung damage that has occurred due to inhaled substances, most commonly smoking. Symptoms are usually slow to develop and often don’t appear until there’s ...

Sep. 22—(Family Features) Take a deep breath. Now ask yourself: When was the last time you thought about breathing? For people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), breathing is often ...

Finding out that you or a loved one has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can feel overwhelming. But the good news is that simple strategies for COPD self-care, along with following your ...

Today is World COPD Day, and the American Lung Association is spotlighting a free program to provide personalized, one-on-one support to people living with COPD. The Lung Health Navigator program is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The training process of the neural network involved clinical data and a CT scan (either single-phase or ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with shorter survival and marked differences in early stages of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Assessing the impact of pre-existing ...

Change in the healthcare industry moves slowly, sometimes too slowly from the patient’s perspective. Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), for example, have historically been ...

Researchers found that approximately 17% of respondents with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and no lifetime history of depression developed depression during the early stages of the ...