On the last Friday of each month the South Portland Community Center hosts ‘laughter yoga’ and participants say it gives them the boost they need.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an umbrella term for a group of lung conditions - including emphysema and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers trained a convolutional neural network with ECGs from patients with COPD and controls to detect COPD ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is often thought of as a condition that only affects longtime smokers. In reality, the disease reaches far beyond that group. Women are ...

Researchers have found a promising treatment breakthrough for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that avoids many of the drawbacks of current drugs, and it has come from an unexpected place.

“This new COPD diagnostic schema, which includes chest imaging, respiratory symptoms and spirometry, identified additional individuals at risk of poor respiratory outcomes,” said Bhatt, a professor in ...

Roche’s hopes of getting its chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) drug astegolimab to regulators this year have taken a hit after the anti-ST2 monoclonal antibody failed to reduce flare-ups in ...

Dietary approaches are shaping up as a key aspect of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) management. COPD encompasses both extremes of weight. Obesity affects some 54% of patients in the U.S.

Scientists have discovered that people with COPD have lung cells that contain over three times as much soot-like carbon as those of smokers without the disease. These overloaded cells are larger and ...

May 23, 2025 -- The FDA has approved the asthma drug Nucala for adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It is the second biologic therapy approved for the condition, following the ...

While GSK’s Nucala may not have earned the distinction of becoming the first FDA approved biologic for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the British drugmaker is confident its IL-5 ...

Chronic lower respiratory diseases, namely, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are the fifth-leading cause of death in the United States. A contributing factor is diagnostic ...