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 ...

Your lungs may be aging faster than you realize. Learn the hidden signs of declining lung function and how to protect your ...

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

Researchers exposed healthy mice and mice with preexisting airway dryness, which is common in chronic respiratory diseases, ...

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

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 ...

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