OpteeHealth·Oct 26In One Small Study, Family Carers Spent About 3.5Ask a family who looks after a parent with COPD what the hardest part of the day is, and the answer is rarely “the disease”. It is the…
OpteeHealth·Sep 26One in Four People Treated for Asthma or COPD in India May Have Both.Ask a pulmonologist in North India how many of their “COPD” patients also have asthma, and most will guess a handful. A 2026 study at a…
OpteeHealth·Sep 5Fewer Than 1 in 5 Elderly COPD Patients Uses an Inhaler Correctly — And Retraining Wears Off Within…A respiratory team handed empty inhaler canisters to 91 elderly patients with COPD and asked them to demonstrate what they did at home…
InBeSundbyPaul Osei-Owusu·Sep 5The Lungs Give Out Before the Muscles DoChronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the third leading cause of death worldwide. It killed 3.23 million people in 2019, and more than…
InClear Yo MindbyWarrior Woman·Aug 3Lessons from my GrandmaHow living in constant burnout is so detrimental to your health
Evelyn·Jul 19Nonsmokers with COPD lose about the same years as smokers with COPDMy last post on this paper walked through how the authors build their “years of life lost” number. This post is about what the number says…
Evelyn·Jul 18When you want life expectancy, Cox won’t get you thereI’ve been reading a JAMA Internal Medicine paper on life expectancy in COPD (Bhatt et al., 2026). It pools eight US cohorts, follows 45,886…
InBeSundbyPaul Osei-Owusu·Mar 26How Structured Exercise Breaks the Respiratory Decline CycleRespiratory disease traps people in a self-reinforcing pattern. Breathlessness reduces activity. Reduced activity deconditions the muscles…
Strategic Revenue Insights·Mar 5COPD and Asthma Devices Market: Growth Drivers, Key Trends, and Global Outlook Through 2033The COPD and Asthma Devices market stands at a pivotal crossroads, shaped by rising respiratory disease prevalence, accelerating…
Gina Hoots | Hootenanny Joy | Real-Life Wellness·Oct 26, 2025MOVE: How Movement Builds Better Breath — Hootenanny JoyWorld COPD Day / COPD Awareness Month By Gina Hoots, RRT — Hootenanny Joy
