Asthma & COPD

COPD is the fourth leading cause of death in New Zealand after heart disease, stroke and lung cancer.

SPONSORED. If you have asthma, you’ve probably been using a puffer to prevent your symptoms for some time.

Every year we have a day to remind people about asthma; how many of us suffer with it and how many New Zealanders die from it every year and what we..

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) includes respiratory diseases such as emphysema, chronic bronchitis, certain types of bronchiectasis an..

SPONSORED. If you have Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), sometimes called emphysema or chronic bronchitis...

SPONSORED. If you have asthma, you’ll know that symptoms can come on quickly...

More than one in every ten people in NZ have asthma and many do not take their asthma seriously enough. New Zealand has one of the highest rates of as..

Approximately 85% of cases of COPD are the direct result of cigarette smoking, either active or passive.

One in eight New Zealand adults and one in seven children are using medicines to control asthma.