Early diagnosis of COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, increases the quality of life of the patient and the efficacy of available treatments.

Your lungs are incredibly important. They're the organs that allow you to breathe and supply your body with the oxygen it ...

The study in the European Respiratory Journal used advanced spatial mapping techniques to compare healthy lung tissues and ...

Among individuals with preserved ratio impaired spirometry, having interstitial lung abnormalities is associated with an ...

Patients with asthma have impaired diaphragm thickening fraction compared with healthy individuals without asthma.

This 1930s educational film provides a detailed exploration of the respiratory and excretory ... bronchi, and lungs, including an in-depth look at healthy and diseased lung function.

Lung cancer is a disease in which cancerous cells form in the tissues around and inside the lung. There are various types of this disease. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a disease where cancer ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is among the most common breathing conditions. It's the result of damaged lung tissue.

Francis, who is not physically active, uses a wheelchair and is overweight, had been undergoing respiratory physiotherapy to try to improve his lung function. The accumulation of secretions in his ...

Francis, who has been in Rome's Gemelli Hospital since Feb. 14, had what the Vatican described as two episodes of "acute respiratory insufficiency ... and is prone to lung infections because ...

The quality of lung function test would be evaluated according to European Respiratory Society (ERS)/American Thoracic Society (ATS) guidlines 52. For more details, please see full clinical trial ...

Methods A post hoc analysis of 38 597 women without chronic lung disease at baseline was conducted in the Women's Health Study (WHS) to test the effect of vitamin E on the risk of incident chronic ...