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Doctors Find Drug for Lethal Lung Disease After Decades of Trying

An international team of researchers reports in the New England Journal of Medicine dramatically transforming aPAP treatment by helping develop a drug that patients can inhale once a day so their body will clear out the pulmonary waste.

Emphysema, a COPD

Emphysema is a type of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). COPD is a group of lung diseases that make it hard to breathe and get worse over time.

A Guide to the Prevention and Treatment of Blood Clots

Blood clots (also called deep vein thrombosis most often occur in people who can't move around well or who have had recent surgery or an injury.

How Do We Americans Stack up Healthwise? Very Poorly!

Despite all, we spend on healthcare (over 4 trillion dollars or nearly 20% of GDP,) we are not a healthy population. So, how unhealthy are we? Very!