David Lynch, writer and director of the Hollywood movies “Dune” and “Blue Velvet” and co-creator of the TV series “Twin Peaks,” has died at age 78, less than six months after announcing he had been ...

OAK BROOK, Ill. – Emphysema detected on baseline low-dose chest CT (LDCT) in the lung cancer screening cohort of more than 9,000 asymptomatic adults was associated with death from all causes, chronic ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) death rates fell in most countries between 1995 and 2017, but the total number of COPD deaths increased in many countries over the past 20 years, according ...

The investigators conducted the study to understand more about the influence of each predictive factor of mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), as rates of death from the ...

The American Lung Association reports that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the sixth leading direct cause of death overall and the fifth leading disease-related cause of death in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The emphysema severity index may be a useful tool in clinical settings and treatment studies to better ...

Physician-diagnosed adult-onset asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were associated with an increased risk of respiratory-related death. The 10-year probability of a ...

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are more likely to die within a year of undergoing elective surgery and to incur higher healthcare costs than similar patients without COPD, ...

Inhibiting necroptosis, a form of cell death, could yield a new treatment approach for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), an inflammatory lung condition also known as emphysema, new ...

Emphysema is a progressive, debilitating lung disease in which the lung's breathing sacs, or alveoli, enlarge, get thinner, and eventually are destroyed as the cells die off. It can be fatal, and ...

Emphysema detected on baseline low-dose chest CT (LDCT) in the lung cancer screening cohort of more than 9,000 asymptomatic adults was associated with death from all causes, chronic obstructive ...