Summary
It happens to people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, and consists of a rapid or sudden worsening of the condition's symptoms: shortness of breath, cough, and mucus buildup. Gerard Criner, professor of medicine of Temple University School of Medicine, has an idea to ease the burden - not through any new treatments as such, but by means of handheld computers or cell phones.
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Taking the Bite Out of Copd
In dry medical jargon, it's called an exacerbation. For the patients, it's a frightening, wrenching assault on the body that some liken to drowning....
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