You may be given bronchodilator medication to increase airflow to your lungs. Your doctor may recommend pulmonary rehabilitation, a program designed to increase your awareness about your condition.

To diagnose chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), doctors typically use spirometry to measure your lung function. They usually also perform other tests to monitor the damage to your lungs.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and pulmonary fibrosis (also called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or IPF) are both serious lifelong diseases that make it hard for you to breathe.

It pumps blood into your lungs through the pulmonary arteries. These blood vessels can have diseases, as well. The pleura is the thin lining that surrounds your lung and lines the inside of your ...

While your risk of developing cancer is typically higher as you get older there is no absolute guarantee that age will protect you. There are many people who have been unlucky enough to get cancer ...

Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is an exercise and education programme designed to help people with lung disease in managing symptoms of chronic breathlessness. This document sets out standards that ...