I’M Dr Suraj Kukadia, known as Dr Sooj, an NHS GP who has seen how life-changing COPD can be. As the colder months set in, I ...

A shock survey by charity Asthma + Lung UK reveals that more than 90% of people with COPD are receiving inadequate care ...

UK: 11 November 2025: Patients in the UK will be able to access cutting-edge testing for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) - the UK’s sixth biggest killer - as the NHS rolls out faster, ...

In 1846, London surgeon John Hutchinson invented the spirometer — a thing a doctor normally asks asthma sufferers to blow hard into — to measure the volume of air inspired and expired by the lungs. It ...

It’s common to feel a sensation of breathlessness or difficulty “catching your breath” in cold weather, but it’s important to know when this escalates into something more serious. Over the past two ...

People with a specific types of coughs are being urged to see their GP as 600,000 people in the UK are believed to be suffering from COPD without a diagnosis. COPD stands for chronic obstructive ...

Plus, what usually causes a cough and when you should worry about it IF you don’t currently have a cough, it’s likely you know someone who currently has a cough. It’s officially cold and flu season, ...

“It wasn’t until several years after my dad was diagnosed that he started going to have his lungs checked at his GP on a yearly basis. He was called for pulmonary rehabilitation around eight years ...