Spectrum Health is one of the first hospitals in Michigan to offer a novel treatment for emphysema. The treatment uses the Zephyr® Valve system, an FDA-approved minimally invasive procedure requiring ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pulmonx Corporation, a leader in therapeutic pulmonary device technologies, announced today that the 2020 update from the Global Initiative for Chronic ...

(StatePoint) More than 11 million people in the United States are living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including more than 3 million people with emphysema, a type of COPD. This ...

“We found a stepwise greater loss of lung density with increasing exacerbation frequency, predominantly in former smokers who already had some preexisting emphysema,” Surya P. Bhatt, MD, MSPH, ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. DEAR DR. ROACH: What tests check for emphysema? Are they the same tests for ...

One patient could only walk 15 to 20 steps before needing to get back on her oxygen, making it difficult to find motivation to engage in daily activities. Another patient struggled with severe ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- There's another disease to add to the list of smoking-related ailments. But for doctors, they are still learning about CPFE or Combined Pulmonary Fibrosis and Emphysema. For ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a group of diseases that affect the lungs. The disease makes it difficult to breath and progressively gets worse. About 15 million Americans have been ...

Lung cancer screening saves lives by detecting cancer early when it is most treatable. But what many people don’t realize is that the same low-dose CT scans used to screen for lung cancer can also ...

Patients with IPF and emphysema who received antifibrotic agents had similar outcomes to patients with IPF alone.

Dear Dr. Roach: What tests check for emphysema? Are they the same tests for COPD? My age is 80. -- P.T. Answer: There are two main forms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: chronic bronchitis ...