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Like the lightning bug, I flash my lantern against the darkness

When the lantern doesn’t get the oxygen it needs. COPD is, at its core, an obstruction of exchange. Air comes in, but not ...
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As we age, curiosity becomes a lifeline for those of us with COPD

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 Many of us fall into a quiet trap as we get older. A new ache ...
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Sooty air makes walking outside trigger worse COPD cough, study finds

The researchers note that their findings do not change existing recommendations that people with COPD should try to walk and be physically active whenever possible. However, the d ...
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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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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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New nebulized combo therapy rapidly boosts lung function in COPD

AERO-007 — a combination of two classes of bronchodilators delivered via a standard jet nebulizer — led to rapid and clinically meaningful improvements in lung function among adults with ...
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A low‑grade fever saps my ambition and steals the day away from me

Some symptoms arrive with fanfare — a cough that won’t settle, a flare that tightens the chest, a night when the oxygen just doesn’t feel like enough. But others slip in quietly. Lately, I’ve been ...
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How a cornfield taught me to claim space while living with COPD

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 When I was a little girl, my mother often sent me to the ...
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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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Navigating the blind curves of COPD so you can still get where you are going

Navigating a diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lot like driving one of those narrow West Virginia backroads with blind curves and no guardrails. The kind of road where you ...
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After a missed Easter, I resolve not to let other holidays slip by unnoticed

This Easter, I found myself at home with nothing special planned. No ham in the oven, no table set, no small ritual to mark the day. Just a quiet house and a long afternoon. And somewhere in that ...
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Tozorakimab reduces COPD exacerbations in two large clinical trials

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 The experimental therapy tozorakimab from AstraZeneca was ...