Recommended Reading
 
 
The following books offer information on lung disorders, as well as techniques to improve your breathing and helpful advice on quality-of-life issues. To order these and other helpful books, click here.

Breathing in America: Disease, Progress, and Hope
Edited by Dean E. Schraunfnagel, MD
2010 by the American Thoracic Society

The Breathing Disorders Sourcebook
By Francis V. Adams, MD
Lowell House, November 1998

Shortness of Breath: A Guide to Better Living and Breathing
By Andrew L. Ries, et al
Mosby-Year Book, Inc., September 2000

The Lung Transplantation Handbook
By Karen A. Couture
Trafford Publishing, 2001
To purchase this book, click here.

Coping with Prednisone
by Eugenia Zukerman and Julie R. Ingelfinger, M. D.
New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1998

The Official Patient's SourceBook on Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
James N. Parker & Philip Parker
ICON Health Publications, June 2002

Share the Care: How to Organize a Group to Care for Someone Who Is Seriously Ill
Cappy Capossela & Sheila Warnock
Simon & Schuster, Sept. 1995

Taking Flight - Inspirational Stories of Lung Transplantation
Compiled by Joanne Schum
Authored by lung recipients around the world
Ocotber, 2003
To purchase, please visit http://www.trafford.com/robots/02-0497.html or http://www.trafford.com/

Adventures of an Oxy-Phile
Thomas L. Petty, MD
May, 2004
Publisher Unkown

In addition, the recently released CPF brochure, entitled Let's Talk About Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Questions and Answers for Patients and Caregivers, may also be helpful to you. To download this brochure, click here.

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