It’s easy to blame swollen fingers on heat or a salty meal — but sometimes, your body might be alerting you to something far ...

Officially known as bronchiolitis obliterans, popcorn lung is a rare but serious and irreversible disease that damages the ...

A popular material for kitchen countertops has been linked to a life-threatening lung disease, silicosis. Health officials in ...

DOCTOR, WHEN YOU GET SICK, WOMEN ARE MORE LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE CERTAIN LUNG RELATED SYMPTOMS THAN MEN. JOINING US THIS MORNING WITH MORE IS MERCY MEDICAL CENTER PULMONOLOGIST DOCTOR ANTHONY ROWE. GOOD ...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an infection that affects your lungs, nose, throat, and breathing passages. You get it when infected droplets enter your nose, eyes, or mouth. This might happen ...

Among the many things that the Industrial Revolution gave rise to was the potential for more rapid spread of public health crises. Communicable diseases such as cholera, typhus, and tuberculosis all ...

The COVID-19 pandemic engulfed the U.S. five years ago this month, leaving not only lingering mental health effects but also long-term physical symptoms. One of those included a condition known as ...

Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) leaves lungs vulnerable to damage. Dr. Malik Khurram Khan, who leads UK's advanced COPD ...

Active rash, interstitial lung disease and elevated neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio were independently associated with ...

Lung cancer symptoms may appear differently in women than in men. Lung cancer tends to be diagnosed at a later stage in females, when the disease has already advanced. This means women may be more ...