New research has identified the mechanism by which air pollution damages the lungs’ self-cleaning system, leaving us ...

A persistent cough can be embarrassing, especially if people think you have COVID. Coughing frequently can also make you ...

Researchers from The University of Osaka reveal the mechanism by which a common air pollutant impairs our airway defense ...

French physician René Laennec wrote, "A spitting pot I consider as an essential part of the bedroom apparatus." Laennec, who ...

Scientists have discovered that people with COPD have lung cells that contain over three times as much soot-like carbon as ...

Cells taken from the lungs of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have a larger accumulation of ...

Apr. 22, 2025 — Researchers have identified a potential new way to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a deadly and currently incurable lung disease that affects more than 3 million people ...

Scientists have made a key breakthrough in treating respiratory diseases by developing a new drug delivery system that ...

Not only did they find this protein active in hypothalamic neurons, but they also narrowed its location down to small cellular extensions called primary cilia. Proteins produced by other genes ...

In children with allergic sensitization, each extra month of respiratory tract infection in the first 2 years of life was ...