Explore strategies for controlling COPD and improving health, with a focus on management and lifestyle changes.

Beginning cigarette smoking before 15 years of age is significantly associated with later chronic obstructive pulmona ...

The growing prevalence of COPD among women can be attributed to a combination of biological, environmental, and societal ...

Multiple chemicals in cigarette smoke and e-cigarettes alter the function of a key type of lung immune cell. Cigarette ...

About 10% of Sri Lankans over the age of 40 are affected by Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), a condition often linked to smoking, prolonged exposure to air pollution, or untreated asthma, ...

Individuals in the lowest quintile of birth weight appear to have an increased risk for subsequent chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

For the first time Australian researchers have identified how exposure to smoking may cause a deadly lung disease that claims ...

After waking up from the procedure, he told me he could take full breaths for the first time in years,” Dr. Mark Sigler said ...

Quitting smoking is one of the most important steps you can take for your health, but it's also one of the hardest.

The smoking rates have dropped among men but are rising in women, increasing the risks of cancer among young female smokers, ...

Researchers say COPD is mainly caused by smoking, but exposure to bushfires and other environmental factors also contribute. Picture: Jason Edwards This is a severe obstruction of the lungs that ...