Among asymptomatic adults who underwent lung cancer screening, risks for all-cause, COPD and cardiovascular disease mortality ...

Risk factors for rheumatoid arthritis-related lung diseases include later RA onset, longer RA duration, and previous pulmonary infections.

Air pollution -- especially ozone air pollution which is increasing with climate change -- accelerates the progression of emphysema of the lung, according to a new study. Air pollution -- especially ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- There's another disease to add to the list of smoking-related ailments. But for doctors, they are still learning about CPFE or Combined Pulmonary Fibrosis and Emphysema. For ...

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Awareness Month, a time to bring attention to one of the leading causes of illness and death in the United States — yet one ...

A landmark clinical study in the Lancet provides convincing evidence that a frequently overlooked therapy for genetically-caused emphysema is effective and slows the progression of lung disease. Alpha ...

Researchers say they have identified a new disease gene that, when mutated, appears to increase the risk in a small number of people of developing emphysema and a lung-scarring condition known as ...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the possibility that some cases of chronic obstructive pulmonary emphysema in adults represent formes frustes of fibrocystic disease of the pancreas ...

Two main biologic mechanisms can lead to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in adulthood: abnormal lung development and an increased rate of lung-function decline with age. These mechanisms ...