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Is a Portable Oxygen Machine in Your Future?

My sister told me she saw someone with a portable oxygen tank and asked why I didn’t have one. Well, I wondered the same thing. It was around Christmas time, a...

By Barbara Moore

2 days ago

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How Pharmacists Can Help People With COPD

Managing a condition like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) calls for an entire team. While you might first think of your doctors and nurses, your pharmacist can also be a...

By Editorial Team

4 days ago

Person Before Patient Survey Image & Recruitment Assets

Take the Person Before Patient Survey

What makes us the people we are? Living with a serious health condition like COPD can mean we spend a lot of time thinking and talking about ourselves as patients...

By Editorial Team

6 days ago

Is a Portable Oxygen Machine in Your Future?

My sister told me she saw someone with a portable oxygen tank and asked why I didn’t have one. Well, I wondered the same thing. It was around Christmas time, a...

By Barbara Moore

2 days ago

How Pharmacists Can Help People With COPD

Managing a condition like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) calls for an entire team. While you might first think of your doctors and nurses, your pharmacist can also be a...

By Editorial Team

4 days ago

Take the Person Before Patient Survey

What makes us the people we are? Living with a serious health condition like COPD can mean we spend a lot of time thinking and talking about ourselves as patients...

By Editorial Team

6 days ago

Is a Portable Oxygen Machine in Your Future?

My sister told me she saw someone with a portable oxygen tank and asked why I didn’t have one. Well, I wondered the same thing. It was around Christmas time, a...

By Barbara Moore

2 days ago

How Pharmacists Can Help People With COPD

Managing a condition like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) calls for an entire team. While you might first think of your doctors and nurses, your pharmacist can also be a...

By Editorial Team

4 days ago

Take the Person Before Patient Survey

What makes us the people we are? Living with a serious health condition like COPD can mean we spend a lot of time thinking and talking about ourselves as patients...

By Editorial Team

6 days ago

Ever Get Tired of Seeing Doctors?

Ever get to the point you get tired of seeing doctors and having to constantly get tested for one thing or another? If this describes you, you are not alone...

By John Bottrell, RRT

5 days ago

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What Does it Mean if I Am an Alpha-1 Carrier ?

An Alpha-1 carrier is a person who has one normal Alpha-1 gene (M) and one defective Alpha-1 gene (usually Z or S) (but there are over 150 mutations).1 Being a...

By Jackie English

6 days ago

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Is a Portable Oxygen Machine in Your Future?

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Is a Portable Oxygen Machine in Your Future?

How Pharmacists Can Help People With COPD

Take the Person Before Patient Survey

Is a Portable Oxygen Machine in Your Future?

How Pharmacists Can Help People With COPD

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