Asthma is a chronic respiratory condition characterized by airway inflammation. When your airways become inflamed, breathing gets difficult, and you may experience symptoms such as chest pain or heaviness, wheezing, coughing, difficulty breathing, or some combination of these. Unfortunately, there’s no currently cure for asthma. Treatment is focused on reducing inflammation...
An estimated 30 million Americans have sleep apnea, a disorder that makes a person stop breathing repeatedly while they’re asleep. Sleep apnea is serious, and it contributes to a range of other problems, including daytime sleepiness, difficulty concentrating, and an increased risk of heart disease. Telltale signs of sleep apnea...
Did you know the average adult breathes nearly 30,000 breaths each day? Your airways, lungs, blood vessels, and the muscles that control breathing all work together with every breath — bringing oxygen in, sending it to every corner of your body, and removing carbon dioxide. It’s a complex process, yet...
More than 15 million Americans have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD is a group of inflammatory lung conditions, and it’s a leading cause of death in the United States. COPD damages your lungs over time and limits your ability to breathe. It’s a progressive condition without a cure, but that doesn’t mean...
Asthma is a chronic lung condition that affects about 25 million Americans. Having asthma makes the airways in your lungs (bronchial tubes) inflamed,hypersensitive and prone to episodes of gradual or abrupt spasm or further narrowing. . When your airways become more inflamed, they get narrower, breathing becomes difficult, and you...
Vaccination is a safe and effective way to protect yourself from COVID-19 and influenza, two of the most common viral diseases in the world today. But whether you’ve gotten vaccinated or not, it’s normal to have questions. Do you need to get a flu shot every year? Is COVID vaccination...
Coughing is a natural reflex to protect your lungs. When an irritant enters your throat or lungs, the nerves in your airways send a message to your brain, making you cough to expel the irritant. Coughs are a common symptom of illness, like the common cold and the flu, and...
Snoring can be funny, which is why it makes its way into so many cartoons and sitcoms. It can also range from mildly annoying levels to relationship-wrecking magnitudes, depending on how loud it gets. One thing you may not realize, however, is that snoring can also be a sign of...
Yes. That is what is so troubling. The American Lung Association, the European Respiratory Society and many international organizations declared 2010 the year of the lung. In the United States, the CDC, the Center for Disease Control, is the government agency that keeps track of the most common causes of...
We now in fact think of chronic obstructive lung disease as what we call a systemic disorder meaning that it has effect on and interactions with other parts of the body. People with chronic obstructive lung disease do develop with greater likelihood heart disease, they develop bone wasting, there is...
Not too long ago the statement was made that if a patient had chronic obstructive lung disease that it was related to cigarette smoking, period. And only with very rare incidence was it related to anything else. But again, we believe now that asthma in younger years can evolve into...
New York Magazine Best Doctors Jun 5, 2011 Dr. Kamelhar was awarded Top Doctors: New York Metro Area award, which lists those whom Castle Connolly has determined to be in the top 10 percent of the region’s physicians—more than 6,000 in all. For the past fourteen years, Castle Connolly has been...
The formal diagnosis of COPD is made with breathing testing or what we call “pulmonary function testing”. This is a series of tests which measures how fast air flows through the bronchial tubes, how much air one exhales with a full and forced exhalation, and how fast that air is...
The most common symptoms of chronic obstructive lung disease are cough, mucus production, wheezing, and shortness of breath. And there may be any combination of those symptoms in any individual at a given time and one certainly has to recognize that the lung, like any other part of your body,...
We started off with our definition of chronic obstructive lung disease, or COPD, by including the notion that it is a not reversible limitation of the flow of air. And we think of asthma as classically having reversibility and the ability to normalize or come close to normalizing the flow...
In order to make various conditions more easily detected to patients and their physicians, different medical organizations have devised short questionnaires of 4 or 5 or 6 or 10 questions that’s easy for the patient to complete, and depending on how they score on that, get a relative likelihood of...
COPD or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is a disease that is characterized by what we call air flow limitation. Air flow limitation means the air flow through the bronchial tubes is less than it should be. The limitation of flow of air is not reversible. That means that if you...
Mar 18, 2009 – (HealthNewsDigest.com) – The fourth annual Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. National Physician of the Year Awards will take place on Monday evening, March 23, 2009 at the Hudson Theatre at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City. Physicians profiled in the Castle Connolly “Top Doctor” guides...
