HME Business Magazine and Website have just announced their 2014 New Product Award Winners. With categories including; business services, home access, mobility, respiratory and more the HME Business award winners are products that are innovative, outstanding, and pave the way for new products to follow. This is the first year of the HME Business New Product Awards. 

Did you know that an abundance of stress and worry in your life can actually make breathing more difficult, and can cause further health problems?

This is true for patients that suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), though with proper stress reducing activities on a regular basis you can learn how to better manage your stress levels.

Incorporating some of the following stress relievers throughout your regular daily routine will help reduce the difficulty of breathing, but most importantly improve your overall health and quality of life.

Welcome back to another segment of our portable oxygen concentrator battle, where we compare similar portable oxygen concentrators on every aspect so you can better assess which concentrator will more adequately fit your health and lifestyle needs.

Today we will be comparing the SeQual eQuinox portable oxygen concentrator against the SeQual Eclipse 5, both of these concentrators are from an extremely reputable company so no matter which unit you end up purchasing you will be both impressed and extremely satisfied.

Whether you are already suffering from this disease or your doctor suspects you have it, pulmonary hypertension is a serious medical condition that can damage the right side of your heart, making it less efficient at pumping your blood around the body and getting oxygen to your muscles.

Shortness of breath, wheezing, and coughing are symptoms experienced by both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD patients.

\Things such as viral infections and exposure to tobacco smoke, environmental pollution, indoor air pollution, and occupational pollution can all cause your asthma or COPD exacerbations.

A great deal of information has been written about asthma. It is known that this common and chronic disorder affects approximately eight to 10 percent of the U.S. population.

Of this number, some five to 10 percent of these patients have a severe form of the disease that fails to respond to normal therapeutic interventions.

CAIRE, the parent company of SeQual, has developed a mobile app available on the iOS App Store to be used with the SeQual Eclipse 5 and SeQual eQuinox portable oxygen concentrators.

This simple and easy to use app will help you determine your expected battery life based on your flow rate and your breathing rate.

There are many lifestyle changes that are in order upon the diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and one of the most important changes you can make is your diet. Did you know that as a COPD patient you can require up to 10 times more calories compared to a person without COPD, this is because your body with COPD burns excessive amounts of energy breathing. Though it may be needed to consume up to 10 times more calories, it is extremely important that you monitor what you eat because what you eat can directly impact your symptoms. COPD friendly food groups include veggies, fruits, lean meats, fish, and nuts, but the type of foods that worsen COPD symptoms are: