The most common side effects of NUCALA include: headache, injection site reactions (pain, redness, swelling, itching, or a ...

Spectrum Health is one of the first hospitals in Michigan to offer a novel treatment for emphysema. The treatment uses the Zephyr® Valve system, an FDA-approved minimally invasive procedure requiring ...

Emphysema, a disease that destroys air sacs in lungs, made it difficult for Linda Sachs to breathe, which impacted her career at a radio station. However, a new treatment from the University of ...

A unique engineering perspective of emphysema progression in the lung suggests how mechanisms operating at the micromechanical scale could help to predict patient survival and quality of life ...

Medication in management of emphysema The management of emphysema is similar to management of COPD. The main treatment is with the use of bronchodilators. These help in opening up of the narrowed ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- For people with emphysema, breathing in is hard because the lungs can't expand properly. In this week's Moves in Medicine, we learn about a procedure letting some emphysema ...

TORONTO, May 28 (UPI) --Injecting the Alpha-1 antitrypsin, or AAT, protein into patients with genetically-caused emphysema has been shown as an effective treatment that slows the progression of the ...

PULMONARY emphysema is one of the most common, disabling and chronically progressive diseases seen in a general hospital. The usual sequence of emphysema, bronchitis, fibrosis and progressive ...

A unique engineering perspective of emphysema progression in the lung suggests how mechanisms operating at the micromechanical scale could help to predict patient survival and quality of life ...