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Sooty air makes walking outside trigger worse COPD cough, study finds

The researchers note that their findings do not change existing recommendations that people with COPD should try to walk and be physically active whenever possible. However, the d ...
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What a chemistry professor’s stinky plant taught me about COPD

Some teachers leave you with formulas and lab reports. Others leave you with something that follows you into the harder seasons of life, long after you’ve forgotten the periodic table. When I was ...
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Erasing the stigma of supplemental oxygen so that we can breathe again

There are moments in life with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that divide everything into the before and the after. Some are dramatic, such as the first hospitalization or the first time ...
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How I learned to make myself heard by hawks and doctors

When I was a young girl, I had a hen named Wimpy. She got her name because she had a game leg and limped when she walked, but that limp never slowed her determination. Wimpy laid 12 eggs and rolled ...
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Tozorakimab reduced COPD flare-ups in top-line Phase 3 trial data

One year of treatment with tozorakimab, AstraZeneca’s experimental therapy, was reported to significantly reduce the annual rate of moderate-to-severe exacerbations, or periods of sudden symptom ...
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Navigating the blind curves of COPD so you can still get where you are going

Navigating a diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lot like driving one of those narrow West Virginia backroads with blind curves and no guardrails. The kind of road where you ...
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From bird lice to COPD sensations, the body always tells the truth

When I was in elementary school, I told my parents that something was crawling on me at night. They exchanged the kind of knowing look adults give when they think a child is expressing emotion instead ...
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We should practice being calm for the moments when we are not

People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may know what to do in a breathing crisis, but that doesn’t always mean we will do the correct thing. When I was diagnosed, I knew that when my ...
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After a missed Easter, I resolve not to let other holidays slip by unnoticed

This Easter, I found myself at home with nothing special planned. No ham in the oven, no table set, no small ritual to mark the day. Just a quiet house and a long afternoon. And somewhere in that ...
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Tozorakimab reduces COPD exacerbations in two large clinical trials

Share this page with email Share this page on Facebook Share this page on X Share this page on Reddit Print Preferred Source on Google The experimental therapy tozorakimab from AstraZeneca was ...
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Losing myself, finding myself: How recovery is harder with COPD

Share this page with email Share this page on Facebook Share this page on X Share this page on Reddit Print Preferred Source on Google There are times in life when illness doesn’t just slow you down— ...
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A tip on oxygen concentrator maintenance: Try ‘blowing the drip’

Share this page with email Share this page on Facebook Share this page on X Share this page on Reddit Print Preferred Source on Google Growing up in West Virginia, free natural gas was one of those ...