Pulmonary fibrosis—also known in technical terms as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)—is a rare but life-threatening ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona say a previously unknown population of circulating immune cells play a critical role ...

CREST syndrome, or limited systemic sclerosis, is a rare autoimmune disease that causes changes and scarring of the body's blood vessels and connective tissues. The acronym CREST stands for the main ...

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 ...

When breathing becomes increasingly difficult with no clear explanation, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) might be the culprit behind the concerning symptoms. This rare yet devastating lung disease ...

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 ...

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BirchBioMed Inc., a leading clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, expert in the development of products for scarring and other fibrosis-related disorders and autoimmune therapeutics, today ...

University of Manchester biologists have for the first time started to unpick the long-term biological changes associated ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE – University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have identified a potential treatment for the respiratory symptoms of long COVID after discovering an unknown cause of the ...

Feeling breathless all day can be linked to smoking, a major cause of lung damage, COPD, and lung cancer. Cigarette smoke ...