On an X-ray, healthy, well-aerated lung tissue shows up black. The lungs of black lung patients are veiled in white. Experts say it should be possible to reverse the trend.

Lung cancer and post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD) are the most common causes of cancer-related mortality. 75 Chronic immunosuppression, effects of previous cigarette smoking ...

Unusual microbial communities in a person’s lower airways could influence the onset and progression of lung cancer and other conditions, and might point the way to therapies.

A decades-old program operated by NIOSH to detect lung disease in coal miners, for example, has been suspended. Related programs to provide x-rays and lung tests at mine sites have also shut down ...

Researchers found especially strong associations linked to increased mortality risk for low BMI (16 kg/m 2) among those with cystic fibrosis (HR = 1.77; 95% CI, 1.39-2.26) and high BMI (36 kg/m 2 ...

Each hilum is in a flat area at the center of each lung, toward your spine or the back of your lungs (medial surface). The hilum is located between your fifth and seventh thoracic vertebrae in ...

In Kentucky and West Virginia, for example, black lung afflicts more than 1 in 8 coal miners who have been working underground for 20 – 24 years. That rate has risen from about 1 in 30 a decade ago.

October 13, 2009 — More than half of 1400 adults hospitalized with influenza A (H1N1) have had underlying medical conditions, including asthma and other chronic lung diseases, chronic heart ...