"Oh, that's just from smoking." It's easy to dismiss a chronic cough as another problem with cigarettes. But what if it's a sign of the lung disease COPD? Franziska Gabbert/dpa Long-term smokers often ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A cough score was used to determine severity and featured questions from three validated assessments. Poorer ...

The combined impact of respiratory illness such as COPD, asthma, chronic cough and pneumonia on individuals and health systems is staggering. COPD alone affects more than 15 million people and costs ...

When monitoring cough, both subjective and objective measures are needed, but use of objective cough counting tools is lacking in clinical practice, according to a scoping review published in Lancet ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - Dr. Bob Cassady from the South Bend Clinic joins us every week on 16 News Now at Noon to answer your medical questions. Question #1: “November is American Diabetes Month. Can ...

Frequent productive cough was experienced by patients with asthma and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), with symptom prevalence increasing with higher disease severity, according to the ...

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is the 5th-leading cause of death in the United States and the cause of more than 150,000 deaths each year. Here's the data for each Louisiana parish.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung condition that often hides in plain sight. You may think you’re dealing with a common cold, when in reality, your lungs are swollen, irritated ...

A brief course of morphine provided some relief for patients with cough related to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) in a small, phase II double-blind crossover trial. Two weeks of low-dose ...