The COPD-Support Newsletter is a feature of the COPD Family of Support Programs launched in December 1999.  The purpose of the Newsletter is to provide a concise summary of current information concerning COPD and related health matters. That will be done by incorporating the most pertinent information gleaned from each facet of the COPD site, chatrooms, newsletters
and miscellaneous web sites. We will try at all times to keep focused on research, new trials and developments in current ones. We will set forth information on new medicines, or recalls on medicines.  To do this, we will not reinvent the wheel and provide long dissertations of information which can be found elsewhere, rather we will provide a short summary of information and include a reference for those that may wish to do further research.  We will also provide a synopsis of major concerns expressed by participants in the COPD Family of  Support Programs and resulting feedback from other members.

The Editor of the Newsletter is Joan Costello. Her  husband of almost 46 years succumbed to COPD  in June, 1999. He had been diagnosed two years previously with severe end stage emphysema, and ill for longer than that.  Joan told her husband's story in a feature article on Bill Powell's personal web site at https://papapoo.com/copd-ed.html

We will welcome contributions to this Newsletter on subjects of importance to us all. Any hints to share on how we cope with this affliction to make things easier in our daily living are earnestly sought. Please send any information to the editor, Joan Costello, at  [email protected]