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Public smoking and underage sale ban being ignored * Most people confuse COPD with asthma * Disease generally manifests when patient turns 35 By Afnan Khan LAHORE: The ban on smoking in public places and the ...

Most GPs have difficulty telling apart chronic severe lung disease from asthma, a survey finds.

'1,200 children become smokers annually in country' Tuesday, November 18, 2008 By Our Correspondent LAHORE EVERY year 1,200 children between the ages of 6 and 16 year years become addicted to smoking in ...

17 /CNW/ -- World COPD Day 2008 features new patient and health professional initiatives that address the misconceptions and lack of awareness surrounding chronic obstructive pulmonary disease .

Concord, NH The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services Tobacco Prevention and Control Program along with Breathe New Hampshire are offering the State's first ever free health screening in an ...

Between 2000 and 2005, the number of annual deaths in the United States due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease rose by 8 percent, an increase driven primarily by climbing mortality rates among women with ...

Understanding of the Disease and its Risk Factors, Including Smoking, Remains Low Awareness of COPD is growing, but few Americans have a thorough understanding of the disease, according to a new national survey ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, and more than 12 million people in the United States are diagnosed with the disease.

Temple University is the only institution in the region taking part in a national study to find a potential genetic cause of COPD, an incurable lung disease.

GlaxoSmithKline announced today that data from a three-year study of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease found that the inhaled corticosteroid in 250/50, fluticasone propionate, did not show an ...

Main Category: Respiratory / Asthma Also Included In: Clinical Trials / Drug Trials ; Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Article Date: 30 Oct 2008 - 0:00 PDT GlaxoSmithKline announced that data from a ...

Data from a Phase IIIb clinical trial demonstrate that Perforomist Inhalation Solution nebulized treatment provided prolonged bronchodilation and increased patient satisfaction compared to ...

Data presented today from two pivotal efficacy and safety trials, SHINE and SUN, demonstrated that SYMBICORTA Inhalation Aerosol significantly improved lung function and was well-tolerated in patients with ...

WRAPPING up to guard against chest infections is the sort of advice most commonly dished out by mothers.

The data also show that as age and smoking history increased the percent of patients with COPD increased - roughly half of the patients over 60 years of age with more than a 20-pack year history of smoking had ...

We believe Daxas has the potential to make a significant contribution to COPD management and will therefore be a great addition to Nycomed's product portfolio." Anders Ullman, Executive Vice President R&D, ...

New Data on Perforomist Inhalation Solution to be Presented at CHEST 2008 Comtex NAPA, Calif., Oct 24, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ ----- Data demonstrate patient preference and increased ...

Novartis has strengthened its capabilities for developing medicines that can be delivered via the lungs through a definitive agreement to acquire the pulmonary drug delivery business unit of Nektar Therapeutics ...

Medical journalist Evra Taylor Levy and emergency physician Eddy Lang began the HealthWatch column a year ago in an attempt to make sense of sometimes contradictory medical research.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the third leading cause of death globally, and one of every four men and one of every six women will develop COPD if they live to be 95 years old.