COPD - Videos
How long does it take for your lungs to heal after quitting smoking? The answer may surprise you. Part of the series Mondays with Marlo on MarloThomas.com.
While most parents try to get their children to sleep, for Monique, putting her two children to bed is another story. Monique, her 9-year-old daughter, Amalia, and 5-year-old son, Diego, all suffer from a rare genetic disease called congenital hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) or central sleep apnea, which can cause them to stop breathing while asleep. Learn more about the disorder.
More Americans have died from occupational disease in the past 40 years than in all our wars combined. Virtually all of these 100,000 annual deaths are preventable. 'If I poisoned someone they would put me away for life, but the company I worked for poisoned me and got away with it', says one disabled worker. Cathy Calzaretta was only 18 when she began to work for Valenite in California. Within three years her lungs were destroyed.
See how the Oxyview Glasses, designed for patients who require supplemental oxygen for conditions like COPD, use hidden breathing tubes in the rim to make the breathing apparatus less noticeable.
More Americans have died from occupational disease in the past 40 years than in all our wars combined. Virtually all of these 100,000 annual deaths are preventable. 'If I poisoned someone they would put me away for life, but the company I worked for poisoned me and got away with it', says one disabled worker. Cathy Calzaretta was only 18 when she began to work for Valenite in California. Within three years her lungs were destroyed.
COPD is the third leading cause of death in the United States. Twelve million Americans have been diagnosed with the condition, which some know as emphysema or chronic bronchitis. How an antibiotic a day could help keep attacks at bay
Allergist Dr. Marc J. Meth explains when a chronic cough may require a trip to a specialist.
Scientists used stem cells to grow tiny lungs in a lab and they actually breathe in and out. Find out what this could mean for the future of lung transplants.
E.R. physician Dr. Travis Stork explains pneumonia and when to get the pneumonia vaccine.
The Doctors explain how ,long people have the cough for with Bronchitis and kind of treatment there is for it.
E.R. physician Dr. Travis Stork explains the differences between viral, bacterial and fungal lung infections, and why knowing this information can save your life.
COPD is on the rise. Are you at risk?
They may seem similar, but they are really different disease states. Learn more about how asthma and emphysema are different.
When you have emphysema and depend on oxygen to help you breathe, it creates unique challenges while traveling. Learn some tips that may help.
COPD is a chronic disease. Learn what you can do to get disability help.
Patty Loveless, award-winning country music singer, speaks with EmpowHER about how COPD has affected her family and about her work with DRIVE4COPD, a public health initiative to raise awareness of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Danica Patrick, NASCAR Nationwide Series Driver, speaks with EmpowHER about the causes and symptoms of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and her work with DRIVE4COPD, a public health initiative to raise awareness of COPD.
Patty Loveless, award-winning country music singer, speaks with EmpowHER about how COPD has affected her family and about her work with DRIVE4COPD, a public health initiative to raise awareness of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Danica Patrick opens up about losing her grandmother to COPD.
E.R. physician Dr. Travis Stork demonstrates how COPD affects the body and explains that it's the fourth-leading cause of death in the U.S.
Melissa, 30, struggles to breathe at high altitudes. She says she's suffered from it since 2003.
