The role that eosinophilic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) plays in the pathogenesis of COPD is not well understood, given the lack of evidence about the subject. A review focusing on the ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common respiratory condition, affecting 4.5% of people over the age of 40 in the UK. The British Lung Foundation estimates 1.2 million people have ...

Over the past years, many details of the molecular pathogenesis of COPD have been revealed. This has offered new points of possible interventions, many of which are currently under investigation. This ...

Adequate management of COPD is important because hospitalisation for an acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD) is associated ...

Moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may be an auto-immunity problem, according to researchers who studied the presence of auto-antibodies in patients with COPD and compared ...

The Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Section has strong nationally recognized research programs in lung diseases and critical care medicine. The faculty performs a broad spectrum of ...

Probiotics improve strength and functional capacity in patients with COPD, based on a randomized, placebo-controlled trial. The improvements stem from decreased gut permeability, which reduces ...

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian in New York have discovered that injecting mice with pulmonary endothelial cells-the cells that line the walls of blood vessels in the ...

Pulmonary hypertension is a syndrome characterized by marked remodeling of the pulmonary vasculature and a progressive rise in the pulmonary vascular load, leading to hypertrophy and remodeling of the ...