Winter is prime time for COPD. You can’t get rid of the disease, but treatment can improve quality of life.Key takeaways:COPD ...

When heart failure occurs, the heart can't pump enough blood around the body, resulting in fluid retention, as it builds up ...

The most common symptoms of a chest infection include a persistent cough, wheezing, breathlessness, a high temperature, ...

THERE are around 200,000 new diagnoses of heart failure every year in the UK. Heart failure is when the heart becomes less ...

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer Cases of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection—or “walking pneumonia”—are surging in the United States, especially among children, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

Dr Louise Herron, Consultant in Service Development and Screening at the PHA, said: “Lung cancer is more common in people ...

You should stay away from smoking while recovering from a chest infection, as it can make your symptoms worse. If you are treating a child with a chest infection, don’t let them breathe in steam from ...

Diwali air quality has reached dangerous levels, with an AQI above 300 in the "very poor" category. Children are especially ...

Symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) include shortness of breath, chesty cough with phlegm, frequent chest infections and persistent wheezing.

Windblown dust from the shrinking Salton Sea harms the respiratory health of children living nearby, triggering asthma, coughing, wheezing and disrupted sleep, USC research shows. The problem is ...

COPD Support Ireland advises anyone with symptoms of breathlessness and ongoing cough, with or without phlegm, to ask their ...