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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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What I tell people who fear using oxygen therapy

I’ve learned that fear doesn’t always come from something that’s in front of us. Sometimes it rises from a much older place, a place the body remembers even when the mind has moved on. I can see this ...
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How I overcame cachexia, the wasting disease often tied to COPD

It’s not uncommon for those of us with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to suffer from cachexia, or wasting disease. A 2019 study found that people with cachexia or pre-cachexia had a ...
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Vaping with e-cigarettes associated with higher COPD risk

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 Using e-cigarettes, often called vaping, significantly increases ...
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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 ...
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Symptoms of COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an inflammatory disorder that causes several symptoms which make breathing difficult. These include persistent cough with mucus, wheezing, and shortness ...
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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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Redrawing the geography of my life one breath at a time

There are days when I realize my world has grown smaller without my permission. After illness, the boundaries of daily life contract almost imperceptibly. A trip that once felt routine — like driving ...
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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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FDA Approves Generic Version of Brovana for Long-term Treatment

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Lupin Limited’s generic form of Brovana (arformoterol tartrate) for treating bronchoconstriction in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary ...
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When it came to ‘quilting’ my lungs, I chose lifestyle seams over pleurodesis

When the word pleurodesis first entered my life, it was not abstract, but was tethered to the reality of three pneumothoraces since 2010. Each lung collapse was a reminder of how suddenly breath could ...