Lung macrophages play a pivotal role in diseases like idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Two types of macrophages—the white blood ...

The UCLA advance opens the door to growing other vascularized organ models, including intestines and colons, providing ...

At first glance, some people seem to have recovered from COVID-19. They no longer test positive and can return to work or ...

New research by Sumeda Nandadasa, PhD, reveals how a key protein associated with Meckel-Gruber syndrome, nephronophthisis, ...

Human exposure to toxic particles drives various diseases. Examples include gout, an acute arthritis driven by monosodium ...

COPD has a large economic impact on the healthcare system and a destructive impact on the lives of patients and their ...

To Wolfe, that’s a problem. About a fifth of the coal miners in Central Appalachia have black lung, Wolfe said. And from 1970 to 2016, more than 75,000 died. Nationally, a 2023 NIOSH study found that ...

Rationale Household air pollution (HAP) from solid fuel combustion is a major contributor to the global burden of disease, with considerable impact from respiratory infections in children. The impact ...

Researchers conducted a retrospective study to examine whether the cause of pulmonary hypoplasia influenced lung growth trajectories by assessing pulmonary function in children aged 8 to 13 years born ...

Abnormal lung function has not been reported in humans with pure iron overload from genetic disorders of iron regulation. However, restrictive lung disease is common in iron-loading anemias such as ...

CLΑD is an umbrella term describing a significant decline in lung function after lung transplantation in the absence of other identifiable causes. The most common manifestation of CLAD is ...