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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Improving COPD patients’ lives needs better diagnosis, drugs, devices Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is one of the world’s leading causes of death – more than 300 million live with ...

Much like cardiac rehabilitation for patients with heart disease, pulmonary rehab is a multi-domain medical intervention that incorporates education on disease, medication, behaviors, and how to ...

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 ...

The analysis included 96 consecutive patients with a diagnosis of COPD and hospitalized in the internal medicine division between August 2022 and April 2023.