Interstitial lung disease (ILD) causes significant morbidity and mortality in patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases. Patients at high risk of ILD should be screened using ...

The COVID-19 pandemic engulfed the U.S. five years ago this month, leaving not only lingering mental health effects but also long-term physical symptoms. One of those included a condition known as ...

Types of Lung Disease and How They Disrupt the Way We Breathe: By Vagisha Jha Breathing is something we rarely think about, until it becomes difficult. Our lungs work tirelessly every second, drawing ...

Lung disease is a general term for several disorders that include airway diseases, lung tissue diseases, and lung circulation diseases, some of which may lead to respiratory failure. During the course ...

Also known as coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, black lung disease (or miner’s lung) is typically the result of inhaling coal dust for many years that causes scarring in the lungs and makes breathing ...

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, ...

Lung diseases like tuberculosis and cystic fibrosis can be difficult to treat. In part, that's because the two-dimensional models researchers use to study the diseases don't accurately reflect the ...

In the 2000s, when the AIDS pandemic hit South Africa, we were seeing a lot of children dying from HIV. That was just before ...

Primary care providers are accustomed to talking with their patients about how diet and nutrition influence health conditions like diabetes and cardiovascular health. But their effect on lung health? ...

Scientists have created a new "molecular map" uncovering how an important human receptor involved in blood clotting and ...

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 ...