Study: Vitamin D Has No Clear Benefit for COPD Patients

Much hope has been pinned on vitamin D to cure, prevent, or treat a host of diseases, including the lung disease chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). New research, however, may dash some of this enthusiasm for people with COPD, an umbrella name for chronic lung diseases including chronic bronchitis and emphysema.

Reducing Inflammation Brings Pain Relief With Bonus Of Better Long Term Health Benefits

Chronic inflammation sufferers will find pain relief from anti-inflammatory products offered by all natural nutrition company, True Healthy Products.(PRWEB) January 20, 2012 True Healthy Products now offers anti-inflammatory products which will relieve pain for those who suffer chronic inflammation. Inflammation can attack any part of our bodies, this imbalance of the system is caused by many ...

Vitamin D provides no relief from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Earlier studies have suggested that up to three quarters of people with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, are deficient in the vitamin. So it was thought that giving them extra vitamin D might help prevent exacerbations in symptoms or trips to the hospital because of shortness of breath or mucus in the airways. Belgian researchers have refuted this claim.

Evening Times

lung cancer and a heart attack are two well known risks of smoking. But there is another fatal blow that few people are aware of … Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Yet west Scotland is a hotspot for the condition.

Exhibition on Ethno Medicine, Life forms opened

Kakinada, Feb 7 : The Dean of CDC, Andhra University Visakhapatnam, Prof SKVS Raju inaugurated the exhibition on Ethno Medicine, Life Forms and Sciences as a part of the Festival of Biosciences at the Ideal College of Arts and Sciences here today.