European Respiratory Society (ERS) and health partners across Europe ran Healthy Lungs for Life events to take part in the ...

If you have smoked for years, quitting may make you wonder whether the damage to your lungs can still be repaired. The answer is partly yes. The lungs can begin to recover after smoking stops, even ...

On World Lung Day, experts help us understand what actually happens when different kinds of smokers smoke their last cigarette. From reversible lung damage to permanent structural changes, find out if ...

We routinely monitor our blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar, often before there are any obvious signs of illness. Yet most of us rarely consider how well our lungs are functioning until a ...

According to statistics from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, lung cancer is the leading cause of death from malignant neoplasms (cancer) in Japan for both men and women combined, ranking ...

Women with severe asthma who used tezepelumab experienced improvements in lung function at 6 months, according to a poster ...

One reason is that too few clinicians raise the issue with their patients. New research published in the American Journal of Surgery indicates that only about 1 in 6 patients eligible for lung cancer ...

Functional strength training focuses on muscle groups that make everyday movements easier to perform. Here are seven ...

Human breath could help identify cancerous lung nodules and reduce the need for invasive testing. New Griffith University research analyzed exhaled breath to help doctors distinguish between cancerous ...

A little-known chronic lung disease is silently emerging as a growing public health threat in the U.S. and around the world. Nontuberculous mycobacteria—a group of 200 known environmental bacteria ...