Providence Holy Cross Medical Center is the first Providence hospital in the San Fernando Valley to offer a minimally invasive treatment for patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPAID) and emphysema. This option provides new hope for individuals struggling with breathlessness and limited lung function despite receiving maximum medical therapy. Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction (BLVR) involves the placement of ...

Life with a respiratory or physical ailment can be torturous, and the best place for you or a loved one to go who faces this is RenewMed Therapy Center in Santa Clarita.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department investigators are asking for the public’s help in locating at-risk Missing Santa Clarita person who has COPD and requires oxygen. UPDATE: Swift has been found and is back with his family, according to LASD officials.  Charles Henry Swift, 72, was last seen on Monday, at 2 P.M., on the 17000 block of Scherzinger Lane ...

Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital officials are set to hold a free community class called “Successful Self-Management of Your COPD” on Tuesday, officials said. People with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) have difficulty with their airways, and the disease is caused by smoking in 95 percent of patients, according to Rhonda Reese, a respiratory care practitioner at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital ...

On a quest to arrest COPD, the nation’s No. 3 mass murderer, we should as a community have zero tolerance for underage vaping. By Dr. Thomas Polucki Don’t get fooled again by smoke and mirrors: Vaping* and smoking e-cigs that vaporize liquid containing nicotine are still smoking. They’re as dangerous as smoking tobacco. You could still wind up in later ...