A dipstick urine test and a mobile app may help predict disease exacerbations in COPD patients as much as a week in advance, ...

Many of us with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have received medical devices to help with our breathing. At first, it seemed to me that some of these devices worked better than others.

For those of us with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), it’s imperative to have a good working relationship with our healthcare team. That became crystal clear to me when I was dealing with ...

Roflumilast (brand name Daliresp) is a prescription medicine used in adults with severe COPD to decrease the number of exacerbations. It is in a class of medications called phosphodiesterase ...

Arformoterol (brand name, Brovana) is a bronchodilator in the long-acting beta agonists (LABAs) class. It is used to control wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing, and chest tightness in people with ...

Oral supplementation with nicotinamide riboside, a form of vitamin B3, helped reduce markers of lung inflammation in older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), data from a placebo ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is an inflammatory lung disease mainly caused by long-term exposure to irritants, such as cigarette smoke, air pollution, and chemical gases. In rare ...

CHF 5993, an investigative triple combination treatment, is fixed-dose and fine-particle inhalation therapy consisting of beclomethasone dipropionate (BDP), formoterol fumerate (FF) and glycopyrronium ...

The umeclidinium-vilanterol combination therapy (brand name Anoro Elipta, from GSK) is a LAMA/LABA used to maximize bronchodilation for the once-daily maintenance treatment of COPD. Umeclidinium is a ...

Ipratropium (brand name, Atrovent HFA; Boehringer-Ingelheim) is a short-acting bronchodilator. It is used to prevent wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing, and chest tightness in people with COPD.

Levalbuterol (brand name, Xopenex HFA) is a short-acting bronchodilator (rescue bronchodilator) to treat or prevent a bronchospasm (narrowing of the airways), or to relieve or prevent the wheezing, ...