Receiving a diagnosis for any disease/condition is not an easy experience. One organization hopes to make patients newly diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis feel supported during this time via a new ...

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, progressive, and often fatal lung disease characterized by the scarring (fibrosis) of lung tissue, ...

When cystic fibrosis hits your lungs hard, hit back. Everything you need to know about getting your lungs back into shape is ...

Jan. 9, 2025 — Researchers have shown that a test called ORACLE can predict lung cancer survival at the point of diagnosis better than currently used clinical risk factors. This could help ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Bacteria in polymer solutions, such as mucus, form cable-like structures that intertwine into living gels. This phenomenon is significant for understanding ...

Cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that attacks the lungs, affects roughly 1 in 3,000 people, and cystic fibrosis-related diabetes (CFRD) is its most common complication, a rare and unique type ...

According to the latest statistics from the American Cancer Society, incidence rates of lung cancer are now higher in women than in men among people younger than 65 years. Overall, though, the news ...

Costochondritis, also known as chest wall pain syndrome ... to the second and third ribs closer to the shoulder and causes visible swelling both on X-ray and sometimes on visual examination.

Research is still in the early stages of how vaping affects lungs – but worrying conditions, like ‘popcorn lung’, are on the rise. Dr Stephen Broderick, of John Hopkins Medicine, has now ...

Now aged 40 and with 30 per cent lung function remaining, she spends between four and five hours daily on life-saving treatments. But she hasn’t let her declining health prevent her fighting for ...

Throughout my childhood, I was thin and underweight thanks to cystic fibrosis. When my mother ... My first year of cross-country was very difficult. Since my lungs were in no way used to exercise, I ...

Higher prices risk stoking social tensions in Russia, where memories of the economic crisis and hyperinflation in the 1990s after the Soviet collapse run deep. President Vladimir Putin conceded ...