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My son is in the hospital for a bad lung infection for IV antibiotics, and he has been needing more oxygen than before. This has caused him to have too much carbon dioxide build up, and his doctor wants him to start using a BiPap machine as much as possible, to eliminate the excess CO2. He is...

My son is 34 years old and this past March, he was evaluated in St. Louis for a lung transplant. He has had a very bad year, with two serious lung infections, one with hemoptysis, and his doctor recommended to him last fall that he be evaluated. The results were that he was not urgently in...

What would you recommend for starting a daily exercise/weight training and physical therapy program to someone who is in relatively good shape but has neglected doing these things for several years? I am a 29-year-old male and would like to see a greater improvement in my PFT scores. I am on...