Researchers have genetically profiled nearly 200,000 cells from lungs, mapping their precise locations in tissue to discover an unexpected new immune niche in our airways The most comprehensive lung ...

Smoking cannabis leads to lung damage, but in a different way to tobacco, new research has found. The findings come from the long-running Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, which ...

A new method of scanning lungs is able to show the effects of treatment on lung function in real time and enable experts to see the functioning of transplanted lungs. This could enable medics to ...

People living with HIV face a greater risk of developing lung diseases at a much younger age, even if they have never smoked.

Credit: Getty Images A pulmonologist discusses the history and influence of race-based reference equations in pulmonary function testing interpretation and patient care. Pulmonary function testing ...

What you eat has a profound impact on your health. However, scientists have now discovered that the right food can even protect the lungs from air pollution. A recent research presented at the ...

Cigarette smoking is widespread and deadly, yet our understanding of how cigarette smoke actually causes serious respiratory illnesses is incomplete, which has severely hampered the development of ...

What are pulmonary function tests? Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are tests of lung function. They are intended to evaluate and monitor chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mean FEV 1 and FVC percent predicted changed with use of race-neutral vs. race-specific equations. The impact of ...

Dr. Joshua Sabari tells CURE that surgery, radiation and systemic therapy can affect the lungs, and he urges exercise and reporting new symptoms early. In an interview with CURE, Dr. Joshua Sabari, a ...

The term "smoker's lung" refers to lung damage caused by smoking cigarettes. Over time, the chemicals in cigarettes damage the airways and lungs, leading to lung and respiratory diseases. Damage to ...