Histoplasmosis is a fungal infection that can cause swelling, inflammation, and, sometimes, small semi-opaque or calcified nodules on the lungs. However, histoplasmosis does not always cause symptoms.

Benign lung nodules can have a few different causes. These include current and past infections in the lungs and inflammation in the body from a condition like rheumatoid arthritis. A lung nodule is a ...

For decades, scientists have thought they understood the biochemical machinery that causes asthma-inflammation in the lungs that constricts airways and makes it hard to breathe. Molecules called ...

New research reveals how the relationship between nerves and immune cells in the lungs can contribute to the development of allergic asthma. Allergic asthma -- which is characterized by wheezing and ...

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 ...

Severe airway inflammation impairs the ability of mice to learn when a dangerous situation is no longer a threat, suggesting that the lungs influence emotions and behaviour. This lung-brain connection ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have uncovered a key molecular player that is involved in lung repair and in the development of pulmonary fibrosis, a common ...

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 ...

This add-on drug may help those with a type of lung inflammation that worsens symptoms like shortness of breath. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Dupixent (dupilumab) to reduce COPD ...