The Latest Breaking News from COPD

According to a recent study published in Canadian Medical Association Journal, patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who undergo major surgery are more likely to die in the year following surgery and have greater health-care expenses than equivalent patients without COPD. Read on for details:

An ambulance was called to their home early on a Sunday afternoon after Kathleen Philipson, who suffers from COPD and had Covid, developed a fast heartbeat. She waited 13 hours outside the hospital

Verona said Tuesday its drug significantly improved lung function in patients with COPD, and VRNA stock skyrocketed to a four-year high.

The failure to consider the timing of diagnoses makes it impossible to draw causal inferences.

The Personal Independence Payment benefit is paid out by the DWP to people with disabilities or long-term health conditions such as cystic fibrosis, emphysema and COPD

COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, is a leading cause of disability and death in the U.S., according to the American Lung Association. More than 12.5 million people have been diagnosed with COPD, but millions more may have the disease without knowing it.

Sufferers of COPD waiting up to a decade for diagnosis

Vivienne Gaynor is now backing calls from campaigners for better respiratory care in Scotland after a new report revealed one in five people wait more than four years to be diagnosed with COPD.

'One day I was struggling to take a deep breath, it frightened me so much I went to A&E. After hours of waiting, I was finally seen by a nurse who said it was down to a chest infection'

Vivienne Gaynor, 60, says that she had to wait around six years to be given a COPD diagnosis and that she was forced to give up her job and use a mobility scooter due to the illness.

Charity Asthma + Lung UK Northern Ireland has called for urgent action