Hospitalized after a motorcycle accident, Keating contracted bronchitis, exacerbated by pulmonary disease and a heart ailment.
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He is 74 years old, has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and is attached permanently to an oxygen supply.
However, they said the operation could still help to improve the lives of many people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Verne Wisby, 68, suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a lung disease linked to smoking that can cause respiratory infections and breathing trouble.
Connie Buonomo said her husband Matthew, who died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, could barely breathe for the last 13 years of his life.
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Trained dogs were asked to sniff out a study group that included lung cancer patients, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients, and healthy volunteers.
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The other most popular sites by number of members cover arthritis, heart disease, sleep disorders, pulmonary disease, back pain, depression, GERD and bipolar disorder.
Unrealistic expectations of modern medicine to achieve a cure, especially in some patients with cancer, post-cardiac arrest, end-stage cardiac or pulmonary disease and major stroke.
Cachexia is best known as a disease of cancer patients, but it is seen in patients with chronic infection, AIDS, heart failure, rheumatoid diseases and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Despite the plateau in smoking rates in men in the 1980s and their subsequent decrease, men still have an increased risk of death due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD.
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But in conditions such as cystic fibrosis or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the "brush" fails to work properly, they suggest, becoming squashed and trapping mucus, which then becomes stuck to cells.
The University of Colorado researchers are studying molecular mechanisms of normal acclimatization in healthy people to gain new treatment ideas for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, a common lung disease.
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For example, another study published last month demonstrated that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were more likely to follow a fitness program using the Nintendo Wii than a traditional fitness program.
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Professor Danny McAuley from the Centre for Infection and Immunity, a partner in developing the new nanomedicine, said that, if successful, this nanomedicine could also have application in other common lung disorders such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Cystic Fibrosis.
Over the past two years, for instance, he has published studies maintaining the Chantix anti-smoking pill is unsuitable for first-line use (read here and here) and a meta-analysis indicating the mist form of the Spiriva inhaler that is used to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease had a 52 percent increase in mortality risk compared with a placebo ( see this).
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Dr McNeil, an expert in lung transplantation and pulmonary vascular disease, formally took up the running of the trust on Monday after being appointed at the end of last year.
But a second piece of research looked at 14 fatal cases and found that in five there was evidence of pre-existing pulmonary-embolic disease, and in four the fatal clot had formed before the flight.
The comic wanted to be entirely free of the drug - which he had used to treat pulmonary fibrosis, an inflammatory lung disease - and be back to his normal weight by March.
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The FDA lists possible complications from the Lap-Band procedure: vomiting, difficulty swallowing, gastroesophageal reflux disease, abdominal pain, pulmonary embolism or leaking that could lead to death.
The company has tried to create new enthusiasm with with efforts to expand into hepatitis C, the viral liver disease that is looking like the next big drug market, and into other areas such as heart disease, cystic fibrosis, and pulmonary arterial hypertension.
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The five most expensive health conditions in the United States are heart disease, cancer, trauma, mental disorders, and pulmonary conditions.
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WHO's China representative, Hans Troedsson, expressed concern about the unusual concentration of cases in Anhui, and about the occurrence of pulmonary and neurological symptoms not typically seen with hand, foot and mouth disease.
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