MRI evidence shows modest urban haze stiffens heart tissue, marking air pollution as a stealth cardiac saboteur beyond traditional risks like smoking.

Once asbestos enters the lungs, it doesn't leave. Its sharp, microscopic fibres scar tissues, trigger inflammation and can ...

Research led by the National Institute of Biological Sciences in Beijing has discovered that switching on a single dormant ...

When non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) spreads beyond the lungs, it often metastasizes to the bones. Estimates suggest 20 to 30 percent of people with NSCLC have bone metastases at the time of ...

The researchers behind the new AI system explained IPF is a good candidate for this type of technology, since existing ...

A Texas researcher received a $219,000 NIH grant to study the potential of a treatment for radiation-induced pulmonary ...

At 12 weeks, patients treated with ENV-101 showed statistically significant increases in lung volume compared with those ...

Jacob Temple, from Kentucky, first started vaping when he was just 12-years-old, under the impression that it was 'safer' ...

The secrets of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are written in its very name. Idiopathic refers to a disease of unknown ...

Both are capable of affecting the lungs and sharing similar symptoms such as cough and shortness of breath but knowing their ...

Viral and bacterial infections that attack lung tissue may trigger an abnormal healing response in some individuals, potentially initiating the scarring process that characterizes IPF.

Post-COVID pulmonary fibrosis, which involves scarring of the lungs that can worsen over time and may require a lung transplant, affects some patients after infection, according to pulmonologists.