Product Description: Includes information on emphysema and chronic bronchitis (together referred to as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD), asthma, pneumonia, influenza, tuberculosis, lung cancer, sleep apnea, and pulmonary embolism. Featured highlights for 2007 include: treating sleep apnea to protect your heart; the hidden dangers of sleep apnea: it's not just snoring!; new research on the effectiveness of antibiotics in treating bronchitis; medications that could be making your asthma worse; ordering drugs from Canada to save money? Make sure you're being safe...read more

Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD. Annual White Paper offers information, latest research findings, and medical advice for coping with any of the major conditions interfering with the life-sustaining act of breathing. Discusses how to manage such disorders as emphysema, chronic bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia, lung cancer, tuberculosis, and sleep apnea. Softcover.