The death of actor and leading man Val Kilmer is a stark reminder of how one of the most common lung infections in the country can turn deadly. Pneumonia causes more than a million ...

Lung transplantation has evolved over 60 years from an experimental to an accepted standard treatment for life-threatening lung disease. Suitable recipients can expect improved survival and ...

If your doctor needs to figure out why you're having trouble breathing or to check for other lung problems, they may suggest lung diffusion testing. It measures how well your lungs are working.

Belrestotug, which was being tested in combination with GSK's dostarlimab for treating advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), did not demonstrate sufficient efficacy, leading to the ...

Brianne Cullen, 17, landed in the hospital with "popcorn lung," a chronic, irreversible condition Kennedy News & Media Nevada teen Brianne Cullen, 17, called her mother from cheerleading practice ...

How a new gut microbe drives the gut-lung axis Date: December 19, 2024 Source: University of Toronto Summary: A team has discovered a new communication pathway between the gut and lung. Their ...

Over the past half century, that program dramatically reduced black lung disease, which once sickened or killed over a third of miners. Mining communities must now grapple with its disappearance.

The Trump administration plans to terminate federal workers focused on preventing and responding to work-related illnesses, including "black lung" disease in coal miners, according to an internal ...

Image: Adobe Stock “There are some pathophysiologic mechanisms which are common in COPD and in pulmonary hypertension that affect the lung parenchyma, the airways and the lung vessels,” Kovacs ...

For example, you may come across a passage that reads: “The complex pathology of this condition involves emphysematous destruction of lung parenchyma, diffuse interstitial fibrosis, changes in ...

The best-known polio paralytic in the U.S. was rounding out his tenth year in an iron lung. Jovial, 35-year-old Fred B. Snite Jr. had set a record: no other infantile paralysis victim in like case ...

Linda Lavin’s cause of death has been revealed. The “Alice” actress passed away Dec. 29 after suffering cardiopulmonary arrest with lung cancer listed as the underlying cause, according to ...