A new study links childhood overweight and obesity to higher COPD risk, stressing early weight management for lung health.

Air dryness is as critical to air quality as air dirtiness, explained David Edwards, adjunct professor of medicine at the ...

From sweltering hot summer days to frigid winter nights, many people can experience exacerbations in respiratory symptoms of ...

Exposure to dry air, exacerbated by global warming, can dehydrate and inflame airways, raising the risk of respiratory ...

Asthma is caused by a combination of factors. People who develop asthma may have a genetic predisposition and react to ...

In a recent, cross-institutional study partially funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers report that healthy human airways are at higher risk for dehydration and inflammation when ...

Discover how smoking attacks virtually every organ, from lung destruction and heart damage to fertility problems, weakened ...

In a recent, cross-institutional study partially funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers report that healthy ...

For the study, the researchers first analysed how water loss or transpiration occurs in the mucus of upper airways in humans, ...

Symptoms of both forms of MAC lung disease include the pervasive fatigue that you experienced. This is due to the extra work your body is doing to try to fight off the infection, and to the damage ...

Although cystic fibrosis is a single gene mutation, there are more than 1,000 different ways the CFTR gene can mutate in ...