Sometimes, cancer cells that have spread become ‘dormant’ but can start proliferating again later. A cue that can reactivate them has been discovered. Read the paper: Respiratory viral infections ...

In a recent, cross-institutional study partially funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers report that healthy human airways are at higher risk for dehydration and inflammation when ...

It’s ah-choo much for the body to handle. Viral infections like the flu and COVID-19 can “awaken” dormant breast cancer cells hiding in the lungs, paving the way for deadly metastatic disease, a new ...

While adults have dominated long COVID headlines, a growing body of research is revealing that teenagers are experiencing persistent lung damage that’s fundamentally different from what we see in ...

Your lungs might be telling you something important, but you’re probably not listening. While most of us obsess over wrinkles, memory lapses, or aching joints as signs of aging, we rarely consider our ...

People are breathing in significantly greater amounts of microplastics each day than previously understood, a new study suggests. The research, published Wednesday in PLOS One, found that people ...

Your lungs bring oxygen into your body and remove carbon dioxide as a waste product. However, air pollution, smoking, and lung diseases can compromise lung function. Specific dietary supplements have ...