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New York City health officials are investigating a Legionnaires’ disease cluster in two Upper East Side neighborhoods. As of ...

An innovative new treatment offering fresh hope to people living with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is being ...

Cases of Legionnaires’ disease are mounting on the Upper East Side of Manhattan as city health officials work to identify the source of the outbreak, which was first announced late last week. So far, ...

Asthma is a lifelong, chronic lung disease. However, for the 27.8 million people impacted in the United States, proper ...

Silicosis—a devastating, incurable lung disease caused by inhaling silica dust—is surging worldwide, fueled by a new wave of ...

A new Mayo Clinic study shows that integrating telomere length evaluation and genetic testing into pulmonary care can significantly change how physicians diagnose and treat pulmonary fibrosis - in ...

A new Mayo Clinic study shows that integrating telomere length evaluation and genetic testing into pulmonary care can ...

Today is World Bronchiectasis Day, an observance to raise awareness about a lesser-known chronic lung disease that affects between 350,000 and 500,000 adults in the United States. To educate adults ...

The first person to ever be cured of sickle cell anemia in Louisiana received revolutionary gene therapy. The treatment is ...

The CIC biomaGUNE Center for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials has developed pulmonary surfactant nanoparticles (the blend of lipids and proteins that lines the alveoli and enables breathing), ...

"The lung is filled with pulmonary surfactant; this is the interface where the exchange between air and fluid takes place," she explained. "Encapsulating drugs designed to treat lung diseases in ...