Since chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a group of chronic lung diseases that make it more difficult to breathe, people with COPD often have at least one lung disease, such as emphysema.

Healthy lungs look and feel like sponges ... When you lose too many of them you’ll have emphysema, a lung condition that causes severe shortness of breath. With less oxygen coming into your ...

Emphysema subtypes, identified via CT, may be linked to cardiopulmonary subphenotypes that can help to target cardiac care in early COPD.

Quitting smoking offers significant lung recovery, though some damage remains permanent, especially in long-term smokers in ...

Causing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Emphysema. Lung cancer. Quitting smoking can greatly improve your lung ...

Apreo Health today announced first-in-human six-month clinical data supporting the use of its Breathe airway scaffold device.