Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease News

To the Editor: In her Perspective article, Kramer 1 succinctly summarizes the decisions of the Food and Drug Administration regarding the continued availability of single-agent long-acting beta-agonist inhalers for use in patients with asthma.

Those of you who have trouble breathing or problems with your lungs and getting air into them, might be familiar with the meter dose.

Severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is associated with lower cognitive function in older adults, according to research from Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

A spokesman for country star Ferlin Husky says the hospitalized singer is improving and has been moved from critical care in Nashville.

LANCASTER - It's been five years since Terrie Dean has been able to live a normal life.

A spokesman for country star Ferlin Husky says the singer has been hospitalized in Tennessee.

The New Brunswick Lung Association is deeply disappointed with Air Canada's decision to allow pets in airplane cabins.

Yesterday MPs debated the discrimination that people with a lung condition can experience when they travel on planes.

Main Category: Respiratory / Asthma Also Included In: Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Amira Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -- commonly known as COPD -- is most often caused by a lifetime of smoking.

Shares of Vectura Group plc rose 8.5 percent on the London stock exchange Monday after the Chippenham, UK-based firm and its partner, Sosei Group Corp., of Tokyo, said Novartis AG had initiated a Phase III study of NVA237, a dry powder formulation of the muscarinic antagonist glycopyrronium bromide, as an inhalational treatment for chronic ...

Clinical trials can be vexing, just ask anyone associated with Osiris Therapeutics, a leading stem cell therapeutic company.

Stem Cell Research for COPD and Emphysema Dr. Roberto Fernandez Vina will present his stem cell study on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Emphysema next week at the International Society for Stem Cell Research annual meeting in Barcelona, Spain.

Sydney, June 29 : Consuming soy milk and tofu could cut down the risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease .

There could be a killer lurking in your home. And, possibly, you're blissfully unaware of it.

People who eat lots of soy products have better lung function and are less likely to develop the smoking-associated lung disease COPD .

Still Positive on Osiris By: Jason Napodano, CFA 0 ) OSIR Share On June 23, 2009, Osiris Therapeutics announced interim results from a phase II trial testing Prochymal as a treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease .

Therapeutics, Inc. announced six-month interim data from a Phase II clinical trial evaluating Prochymal, the Company's proprietary formulation of adult mesenchymal stem cells, for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease .

If you are young and you smoke, here's another reason to quit. Smoking is the most common cause of COPD, a respiratory disease that could leave you breathless later in life.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic bronchitis, and a number of other pulmonary disorders make it difficult for the sufferers to cough out built up mucus.