Lee County Health Department, state funding work on area tobacco prevention

FORT MADISON – For several years the Lee County Health Department has received Community Partnerships funds from the Iowa Department of Public Health to work on tobacco prevention programs.

Many to climb Austin skyscraper for lung disease

Lung disease is something that affects everyone at some point in their life, whether it's asthma, bronchitis or lung cancer. This weekend hundreds will hit the stairs inside one of Austin's tallest buildings to help in the prevention, control and cure of lung disease. Miss Austin, Callie Thompson, and chair of the Fight for Air Climb, Mary Partridge ,spoke to KVUE about the event. It will take ...

CDC to baby boomers: Get tested for hepatitis C

For the first time, the government is proposing that all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C.

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Associated Health-Care Resource Use--North Carolina, 2007 and 2009 [From the ...

JAMA . 2012;307(18):1905-1908. doi: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including emphysema and chronic bronchitis, is a progressive condition in which airflow becomes limited, making it difficult to breathe.

Acupuncture may help some people with COPD: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Three months of acupuncture improved breathing problems in people with chronic lung disease, in a new study from Japan. According to one researcher, the benefits seen with the alternative treatment were on par with, or better than, what's been shown for conventional drugs and exercises used to treat the disease. But the study was small, he added, and more research ...