The Free Press talked to Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos, a pulmonologist at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, about the nature of ...

COPD breathlessness action plans may help patients manage episodes, reduce anxiety, and avoid emergency care. Read more.

Distressing breathlessness on exertion is common in fibrotic interstitial lung disease, and oxygen is often used. For these patients, use of a portable oxygen concentrator didn't increase physical ...

Patients and doctors both experience understandable worry after they observe their patients developing breathing problems. Most people who experience breathing difficulties actually suffer from ...

There is a known pattern whenever temperatures fall every winter in India, across clinics, more patients come with complaints of breathing problems. The problem becomes worrying because most of these ...

Climbing stairs exerts stress on the body because you are moving upward against gravity. While feeling slightly winded during this activity is common, experiencing extreme breathlessness is not normal ...

Dr Ernestina Mensah of the Chosen Hospital in Tetegu, Accra, has warned that many people are living with lifestyle-related illnesses without knowing, describing non-communicable diseases as “silent ...

The AHRQ systematic review included 48 RCTs and two retrospective cohort studies. Lung cancer and mesothelioma were the most commonly addressed types of cancer. Nonpharmacologic interventions such as ...

Rajkumar Dasgupta, MD, is the associate program director of Internal Medicine Residency at Huntington Health in Pasadena, California, and associate professor of medicine at the University of ...

Heart blockages tend to develop very quietly, and the symptoms are usually mild. They can easily be mistaken for tiredness, winter fatigue, or normal ageing. Such subtle signs may indicate that the ...

They are also linked together in a “dyspnea-anxiety cycle.” Feeling short of breath can trigger anxiety, which can worsen your breathing and make you feel even more breathless. In turn, anxiety can ...

Chronic breathlessness, a symptom often overlooked by healthcare systems, is associated with longer lengths of hospital stay on already overstretched healthcare resources, says new Flinders University ...