http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:00:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/22/can-the-uk-lead-the-way-on-reducing-the-preventable-costs-of-chronic-lung-disease/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/22/can-the-uk-lead-the-way-on-reducing-the-preventable-costs-of-chronic-lung-disease/#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2012 01:00:23 +0000 Monica Fletcher http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25557 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease progressively damages the lungs and can impede all aspects of everyday life. Deaths from COPD have doubled in the last three decades and are expected to further increase by 30% in the next 10 years, unless we act now.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/22/can-the-uk-lead-the-way-on-reducing-the-preventable-costs-of-chronic-lung-disease/feed/ 1