Hyperinflation refers to the lung’s increase in size due to the trapped air that has caused them to expand. The BREATHE-3 trial uses self-expanding nitinol airway scaffolds that are placed ...

Donna Culton, MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, outlines diagnosing autoimmune blistering diseases. Persistent, intensely itchy rashes in older adults are often written off as eczema or ...

NORTH PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- There's a potential new treatment for severe emphysema, and Philadelphia is a key test site for this small device with big potential to improve lives. In COPD (Chronic ...

Alzheimer’s disease is one of humanity’s most formidable foes. It affects 10 percent of people over age 65 and kills more people each year than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined. Its effects ...

A baby girl defied all the odds to survive after being born so early her foot was the size of her dad’s fingertip and her eyes were sealed shut. Brave tot Jemima James, now aged one, was born weighing ...

Victor Sung, M.D., director of the Division of Movement Disorders in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Neurology and director of the UAB Huntington’s Disease Clinic, reacted to the ...

Every week neurologist Victor Sung sees people with Huntington’s disease, a rare and deadly neurodegenerative disorder, at his clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. But a Wednesday in ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 73-year-old woman who is in otherwise good health, but I was diagnosed with bullous pemphigoid, a rare autoimmune disease, in January 2022. I have been treated by three ...

Visually assessed pulmonary emphysema independently predicted modestly elevated all-cause mortality risk over 25 years of follow-up in patients with a history of smoking. After controlling for other ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Dupixent® (dupilumab) for treating adults with bullous pemphigoid (BP), a chronic and debilitating skin disease primarily affecting the elderly ...