Despite ongoing progress, structural racism and health disparities continue to shape health care practices in ways health ...

Birds are breathing in high levels of airborne microplastics into their lungs—and, likely, so are we, with unclear effects on ...

Yes, your lungs begin to heal after quitting vaping. However, healing time and lung repair depend on many factors. Learn ...

Objectives Interstitial lung disease associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA-ILD) is linked to high mortality. Currently, ...

Medically reviewed by Susan Russell, MD The term "smoker's lung" refers to lung damage caused by smoking cigarettes. Over ...

Recent research published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine confirms that emphysema was detected in 24% to 31% of patients undergoing lung cancer screening. This means that for millions of Americans, ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — Scientists have created a new low-cost, fast response sensor to detect lung cancer biomarkers, paving the way for the development of screening devices to spot the disease even ...

Axial unenhanced thin-slice chest HRCT scan (G) in a 32-year-old male cannabis smoker, showing extensive alterations due to destruction of lung tissue on both sides with ... Mckeon DJ. Bullous ...

5 Wessex Investigational Sciences Hub, University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK Correspondence to Dr Tom Wilkinson, Clinical and Experimental ...

The average amount, 4,800 micrograms per gram of microplastics in brain tissue, was found to be equivalent to the amount found in a standard plastic spoon, according to the study. MORE ...

Air pollution is fuelling a rise in the most common form of lung cancer among non-smokers, hitting women and people in Southeast Asia particularly hard, according to a study published on Tuesday ...

Background: Combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema (CPFE) commonly coexists with connective tissue diseases (CTD), such as rheumatoid ... developed interstitial lung disease (ILD), with 74 (7.6%) ...