May 5 marked World Asthma Day, an excellent opportunity to raise awareness about asthma! At Clearwater Valley Health, we have ...

AI-powered platform Swaasa is using cough sound analysis through smartphones to help screen respiratory diseases such as COPD ...

NEW YORK, NY – March 02, 2022 – In the latest update to the pulmonary function tests technical standard series, the American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society address the uncertainty ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Poor lung function trajectories were found among those with chronic productive cough and those with intermittent ...

In a recent study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, a team of researchers compared the efficacy of the controlled release of low-dose morphine as an antitussive treatment against that of a ...

Pulmonary assessment combines history-taking with physical examination maneuvers—inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation—to evaluate lung health and function. Observing breathing patterns, ...

Physicians may be able to better identify patients with chronic cough using the combination of 2 coughing tests. Researchers found the combination of the cough suppression test and the cough challenge ...

A brief course of morphine provided some relief for patients with cough related to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) in a small, phase II double-blind crossover trial. Two weeks of low-dose ...

Emphysema causes a chronic, hacking cough that’s often accompanied by shortness of breath and a tightness in the chest. Emphysema is a type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that causes ...