COPD & Emphysema Support Group
COPD is a progressive disease characterized by airflow obstruction or limitation. Emphysema is characterized by loss of elasticity of the lung tissue, destruction of structures supporting the alveoli and of capillaries feeding the alveoli. Both have symptoms that include shortness of breath, among other respiratory troubles. If you are a COPD or Emphysema sufferer, join...
You might be interested to read how far the medical establishment has come over the past 200 years in the treatment of COPC.
Its thanks to the the fine doctors and their research studies and scientists and volunteers who have brought us to the point we are today, and will bring us future treatments and hopefully a cure one day. God Bless them everyone...
Check it out, its written by Dr. Tom Petty, University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2706597/
Holly
Its thanks to the the fine doctors and their research studies and scientists and volunteers who have brought us to the point we are today, and will bring us future treatments and hopefully a cure one day. God Bless them everyone...
Check it out, its written by Dr. Tom Petty, University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2706597/
Holly
Makes you kinda glad to be able to have access to current day medicines and treatments.
I recall as a child listening to a neighbor who had what was called miners lung, he had no meds or inhalers that I recall, and it was very troubling to hear and watch him trying to breathe, I think his only medicine then was something like benedictine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9n%C3%A9dictine
He'd have a small glass each evening.