Chronic lung diseases are often accelerated and exacerbated by polymicrobial infections. An international study has identified two types of these so-called dysbioses in cystic fibrosis. They display ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains a substantial contributor to morbidity and mortality in the United States with an estimated 3.8% age-adjusted prevalence and 141,733 COPD deaths ...

Aug 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Insmed's (INSM.O), opens new tab oral drug for a type of lung disease, the company said on Tuesday, making it the first treatment ...

The FDA has approved Insmed’s brensocatib, the first treatment for non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis, a chronic and progressive lung disease affecting about 500,000 people in the U.S. The drug was ...

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 ...

Smoking causes chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Some people with this disease have high levels of eosinophil cells, which is typical of the type 2 category of inflammation, and blocking such ...

Pope Francis, history’s first pontiff from Latin America, has died. The 88-year-old religious leader battled chronic lung disease throughout his life, ending in over a monthlong hospitalization for ...

The FDA approved oral brensocatib (Brinsupri) as the first treatment for non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis in adults and kids 12 years and up, drugmaker Insmed announced on Tuesday. A first-in-class ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have discovered how severe COVID-19 can destroy immune cells' ability to repair the lungs, helping explain the lingering effects of long COVID. 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 ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide, responsible for 3.5 million deaths in 2021, according to the World Health Organization. It’s a common ...