Dr Karthiyayini Mahadevan, head, wellness and well-being, Columbia Pacific Communities, shares simple ways to improve the functioning of your lungs. Kindly note the image has been posted only for ...

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Q: I recently started going to a yoga class at our community center. We were doing deep breathing, and it felt like my lungs weren't filling up as much as they used to. Do your lungs get less elastic ...

In 11 patients with severe cases of COPD and hypercapnic respiratory failure, lung volume reduction coil treatment was associated with significant decreases in carbon dioxide levels and improvement in ...

Lung-volume–reduction surgery is a proposed treatment for emphysema, but optimal selection criteria have not been defined. The National Emphysema Treatment Trial is a randomized, multicenter clinical ...

The maximum amount of air you can breathe in and out is your vital lung capacity. Everybody’s vital lung capacity is different depending on factors such as their age and fitness levels. When you ...

Janet Cothrell is no athletic coach. But listen outside the Pulmonary Function Lab on the sixth floor of the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance clinic, and you might hear one. "Keep going, keep going, KEEP ...

The combined actions of elastin, collagen and surface tension, along with a supporting network of muscles and connective tissues, create lung capacity. This is the total volume of air in the lungs ...