Emphysema News

Mylan Inc. sued Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. to prevent it from selling a generic version of the Perforomist inhaler for people with chronic bronchitis and emphysema.

Patients with severe emphysema have few options other than surgery or a lung transplant.

The market for technologies designed to treat emphysema and its symptoms is heating up, according to the experts at the Millennium Research Group.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease also known as COPD, Bronchitis, or emphysema is the 4th leading cause of death worldwide.

Uptake Medical, the Seattle-based company developing minimally invasive technology to treat emphysema, has raised $3.1 million in a debt financing, according to a regulatory filing .

THE recent decision by the Midlothian-based biotech group PPL Therapeutics to scrap a A 42million investment is a stark illustration of the struggling fortunes of Europea s biotechnology sector.

Background We sought to determine whether depressive or anxiety symptoms are associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease hospitalization or mortality.

Emphysema is one of the most serious diseases of the lungs. The lungs contain tiny air sacs known as alveoli and bronchioles, the narrow passages leading to the air sacs which become permanently distended with air under this condition.

Scott Steinmetz is director of the cardiopulmonary department at Lake Regional Health System.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My husband, 91, has just been diagnosed with emphysema. He never smoked.

Emphysema is one of the most serious diseases of the lungs. The lungs contain tiny air sacs known as alveoli and bronchioles, the narrow passages leading to the air sacs which become permanently distended with air under this condition.

The FDA approval is based on results from two pivotal clinical trials, SHINE and SUN , which found SYMBICORT significantly improved lung function within five minutes of the first dose and sustained that lung ...

The study was conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, and Reata provided the AIM used in the study.

People taking inhaled drugs to treat a widespread lung condition may be at increased risk of heart attack and death, according to a Veterans Affairs study conducted by researchers from Wake Forest University ...

GlaxoSmithKline has teamed with Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world, to tap the market for "green" asthma inhalers.

Former smoker Kevin Dormody discusses quit-smoking initiatives with Niki Legge, executive director of the Smokers Help Line at the Newfoundland and Labrador Lung Association offices on Pippy Park Monday ...

Rare loss-of-function folliculin mutations are the genetic cause of Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome, a monogenic disorder characterized by spontaneous pneumothorax, fibrofolliculomas, and kidney tumors.

A rescue inhaler is one of the tools Rebecca Miracle uses to manage her 7-year-old daughter's asthma, but the New Year brings a new inhaler that will mean changes for her and others.

With the year 2009 drawing near, people who suffer from asthma and other respiratory ailments only have a few days before the last of the inhalers that use an ozone-depeleting chemical disappear from pharmacy ...

Claims are swirling that Michael Jackson may - or may not - be gravely ill and in need of a lung transplant because of a rare genetic condition called alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.