Lung disease is a silent and often deadly threat that lurks in the lives of smokers. For many, smoking is a habit formed over years, becoming a part of their daily routine. However, the consequences ...

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DOCTOR, WHEN YOU GET SICK, WOMEN ARE MORE LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE CERTAIN LUNG RELATED SYMPTOMS THAN MEN. JOINING US THIS MORNING WITH MORE IS MERCY MEDICAL CENTER PULMONOLOGIST DOCTOR ANTHONY ROWE. GOOD ...

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 ...

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The lung disease bronchiectasis plays out as a vicious cycle. Infection leads to inflammation followed by the impaired ability to clear the excess mucus coughed up from the lungs. These problems lead ...

For most Americans, the letters "NTM" don’t mean anything. But for tens of thousands of people across the country, they represent something serious: a chronic lung disease that’s often overlooked, ...

Implementation of a previously approved federal rule meant to help prevent black lung in the nation’s coal miners has been ...

In the 2000s, when the AIDS pandemic hit South Africa, we were seeing a lot of children dying from HIV. That was just before antiretroviral treatment had become fully accessible for people in the ...

United Therapeutics is making headway in unlocking a new lung disease market for its drug Tyvaso (treprostinil) with a pivotal phase 3 win in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). United’s Teton-2 ...

A state board is considering the drastic move, which could come as soon as May, after an outbreak of the lung disease ...