Patients with COPD who have mucus plugs identified via CT scans are associated with greater risks for acute exacerbations of their disease.

In this cohort study involving 9399 current and former smokers from the Genetic Epidemiology of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease study, we assessed the relationship between artificial ...

The effect of erdosteine on mucus rheological properties was evaluated in patients with exacerbation of COPD. [24] Patients receiving erdosteine had statistically significant reduction in sputum ...

In acute infective exacerbation of chronic bronchitis or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), adding erdosteine to standard treatment significantly modified the outcome by improving the ...

A doctor has shared five tricks people can use to clear a blocked nose - without having to use medication such as ...

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Our lungs work hard every day, delivering oxygen to our bodies and keeping us alive. But things like pollution, smoking, ...

Simon Meredith, a pulmonologist at Northwell Lenox Hill Hospital, tells Yahoo Life. “For people with any kind of chronic lung ...

COPD is the fourth leading cause of all deaths ... People in developing countries consider wheeze, breathlessness and bringing up phlegm to some extent as normal, which will probably result in ...

ISM5411 is designed to directly regulate the intestinal immune microenvironment so that the drug simultaneously reduces the gut inflammation seen in IBD while also promoting the repair of the ...

Older adults are becoming aware that RSV, a common virus that usually causes mild cold symptoms, can be more serious for them ...