Lung Health
It’s COPD Awareness Month – What You Should Know
By Corinne R. Young, MSN, FNP-C, FCCP Every November, members of the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) community come together to spread awareness and education
By Corinne R. Young, MSN, FNP-C, FCCP Every November, members of the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) community come together to spread awareness and education
By Annie Perng, MSN, CRNP, CWOCN Prior to becoming a pulmonary nurse practitioner (NP), I worked as a bedside nurse on a lung transplant unit.
November is National Lung Cancer Awareness Month, and this year, understanding how to keep your lungs healthy, identify issues early and treat lung disease effectively has never been more critical. For patients living with lung cancer, there are actions you can take to reduce your risk of contracting COVID-19.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a group of diseases that cause airflow blockage and breathing-related problems. Even though COPD can be caused by smoking, 15 million U.S. adults with COPD continue to smoke.
Even amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, sometimes we take the health of our lungs for granted. Here are four ways to keep your lungs healthy.
This year, more than 230,000 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer, bringing the number of people living with the disease to over half a million.
In the last 40 years, the rate of lung cancer has dropped 35 percent for men, while rising nearly 90 percent for women. Once thought of as a male smoker’s disease, lung cancer is shattering stigmas.
Right now, one in seven older adults suffers from some sort of lung disease, whether it’s chronic bronchitis or emphysema (which make up chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD), asthma or occupational lung diseases like asbestosis and mesothelioma.