A recent national study revealed ongoing symptom burden and communication gaps in COPD care, and provided physicians with ...

Jeffrey D. Dunn, PharmD, MBA: Obviously, if a patient can’t breathe, they’re going to seek help. Or if they have an exacerbation and have to go to the ED [emergency department], we know what ...

Sanofi and Regeneron, AstraZeneca, Roche’s Genentech and GSK have provided support for the Living Well with COPD educational ...

S hifting from a metered-dose inhaler to a dry-powder inhaler for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma in ...

Approximately two thirds of hospitalized adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) received suboptimal treatment with inhalers, mainly resulting from errors, based on data from 96 ...

The Alliance for Patient Access today announced the launch of the COPD Action Alliance, a national advocacy coalition that unites stakeholders at the state and federal level through a patient ...

Coming during National COPD Awareness Month, the specialty pharma that sells cough medicines has released a nationwide education program in the U.S. aimed at both patients and primary care ...

End-of-Life Decision-Making: Special Considerations in the COPD Patient. MedGenMed 1(3), 1999 [formerly published in Medscape Pulmonary Medicine eJournal 2(5), 1998]. Available at: https://www ...

But now, wearable technology may be a close second best friend to a COPD patient. “I believe in education, and if this wearable prototype could help me in the present and/or future, I would be ...

Inhaler misuse was high in hospitalized patients with COPD, with 69.4% of all inhalers at admission found to be misused, according to results published in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases ...