NEW FOR 2025
from Focus on Healthy Aging in cooperation with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
What You Must Know About the Latest Treatments for COPD, Asthma and Other Lung Diseases
For millions of people with a damaged respiratory system or serious lung infection, lung health is literally a matter of “life and breath.” For them — for you? — breathing can become progressively more difficult, affecting every aspect of daily activity, and often leading to premature death.
If you suffer from COPD, asthma or one of several other pulmonary conditions, you’ll surely want to know about this encouraging news: New medications, new therapies, plus advances in nutrition, specific exercise recommendations, even surgical options are now available to help slow lung damage and optimize your remaining lung function.
That’s why the pulmonary experts at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai and the editors at Focus on Healthy Aging are so excited to share with you their just-published 2025 Special Report: COPD, Asthma and Other Lung Diseases.
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Step-by-step, this comprehensive Special Report opens your eyes to new ways to help diagnose and treat chronic lung conditions including COPD, asthma, and bronchiectasis. You’ll also discover effective new strategies to help prevent and treat lung infections such as influenza, pneumonia, and tuberculosis.
Here’s just a small sample of the kind of helpful news you’ll find in this Special Report…
Help for COPD
- The low-exertion exercise that helps those with COPD walk with more energy and engage in other forms of exercise.
- The COPD medications your doctor may prescribe to help open your airways and reduce inflammation.
- How music therapy can help improve shortness of breath, fatigue, and depression.
- Two breathing techniques that can help you make the most of every breath you take.
- Nutrition tips — foods that help, and foods that make breathing more difficult.
- How exercise and pulmonary rehabilitation help decrease hospitalizations and exacerbations by one-third.
- The differences between 3 types of supplemental oxygen.
- Proven strategies and medications to help quit smoking and stop damage to your lungs.
Help for Asthma
- The new class of medications for treating people with asthma and type 2 diabetes.
- The connection between asthma and cardiovascular disease.
- Surprising asthma triggers — including common foods and medications.
- The vitamin now associated with improved lung function
- When pulmonologists feel it is safe to taper off asthma medications.
- When a different asthma medication may be required.
- Two ways doctors are now treating severe asthma.
Help for Lung Infections
- The latest available treatments for bronchiectasis not related to cystic fibrosis — including a medication recently given breakthrough therapy
- Influenza medications that can reduce the length of time you are sick and lessen the severity of symptoms. But be sure you follow the advice on page 47!
- What you must know about the three types of pneumonia— including the fungal infection caused by the soil in various regions of the U.S.
- See how vulnerable you are to pneumonia with the simple calculator on page 53.
- Stuffy nose? Beware of using nasal spray decongestants.
- The new drug combination that helps shorten the treatment of active tuberculosis.
What’s more, you’ll appreciate the detailed, full color illustrations that provide an look at the inside of lungs affected by these conditions — helping you better understand your illness and be encouraged to better manage it.
This Special Report is available to you TODAY in a convenient e-book download. Or, if you prefer, you can order a print edition.
But don’t wait. Respond today and discover how you can fight back against COPD, asthma and other lung diseases and help improve the quality of your life.