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October 14, 2017
Breathtaking: Managing a COPD diagnosis
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a serious lung disease that makes it hard to breathe. It's also known...
COPD![Jim Nelson (right) and his wife Mary.](/images/uploads/main_images/_main_article_list/toostubborncopd-fall17.jpg)
October 13, 2017
Too 'stubborn' to give in to COPD
"I was blessed with a fine case of the 'stubborns'" says Jim Nelson, a 77-year-old retired accountant living in...
COPD![From left to right: Grace Anne Dorney Koppel, MeiLan K. Han, M.D., M.S., and James P. Kiley, Ph.D.](/images/uploads/main_images/_main_article_list/copdplan2-f17.jpg)
October 13, 2017
NIH launches National COPD Action Plan
James P. Kiley, Ph.D., is the director of the Division of Lung Diseases at NIH's National Heart, Lung,...
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