Premature infants are at risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia, or BPD, a type of lung injury associated with increased mortality.

Approximately 6 million of them are children. But as a chronic lung condition, asthma doesn’t completely go away once you develop it. Asthma is an inflammatory condition that narrows (constricts ...

Bronchiectasis can often stem from various injuries to the airways causing the ‘bronchial’ tubes leading to the lungs to become permanently enlarged, and more prone to infection and chronic ...

After listening to my lungs, the physician assistant told me she wanted me to have a bronchoscopy. At that point, my bronchial stem had narrowed to 3 mm when it should’ve been 12-14 mm. Doctors placed ...

His respiratory tract infection and chronic fever had led to pneumonia in both his lungs. Read on to know how a bronchial infection becomes life-threatening. Doctors say a chronic and persistent cough ...