Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many respiratory viral infections can cause long-term symptoms. sbk_20d pictures/Moment via Getty Images The long-term effects of ...

A new type of pericyte is linked to lung scarring in people with pulmonary fibrosis, a study suggests. These cells surround ...

A US teenager was recently reported to have developed the oddly named medical condition "popcorn lung" after vaping in secret for three years. Officially known as bronchiolitis obliterans, popcorn ...

Black lung disease is surging among Appalachian coal miners, with coal and silica dust exposure causing irreversible lung ...

TAMPA, Fla — Most of the patients doctors are seeing in the hospital now are critical. They need help breathing because of the damage COVID-19 is causing to their lungs. "It's been all hands on deck.

LUBBOCK, Texas. - A Texas doctor is noticing a pattern in her patients that could reveal another possible devastating side effect of COVID-19: severely scarred lungs. Dr. Brittany Bankhead-Kendall, a ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My childhood friend just emailed me that she has a 1.1-cm lesion on her lung. It was found on a CT scan. She’s having another CT scan today. She is a former smoker and has COPD. Is the ...

A 3-D visualization of a pair of lungs. The lungs are full of bulbous deformations. A cross section shows the interior of the lungs. Lung interior More than three years after the start of the pandemic ...

CHICAGO (KTIV) - Elizabeth Wehrle is a 36-year-old mother from Montezuma, Iowa, who underwent a first-of-its-kind transplant in the United States, involving retransplanted lungs, according to medical ...

The long-term effects of respiratory viral infections such as COVID-19 are a major public health burden. Some estimates suggest over 65 million people around the world suffer from long COVID-19.