An international study found that air pollution leads to more cancer-related genetic changes than secondhand smoke.

Rationale The role bacteria play in the progression of COPD has increasingly been highlighted in recent years. However, the microbial community complexity in the lower airways of patients with COPD is ...

Chronic lung diseases, such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are major leading causes of death worldwide and are generally associated with poor ...

However, the findings of Lv et al 2 contrast interestingly with those of other reports in which endothelial deletion of Smad4 in mice caused the development of arteriovenous malformations in multiple ...

Introduction Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a prevalent chronic respiratory condition that remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Acute exacerbations of COPD ...

LOS ANGELES, California (KABC) — A double-lung transplant patient has died after his battle for coverage from his health insurance company went viral online. Deron Wells died last week, just ...

Click here for updates on this story LOS ANGELES, California (KABC) — A double-lung transplant patient has died after his battle for coverage from his health insurance company went viral online.

Kamal, R., Srivastava, A.K. and Kesavachandran, C.N. (2015) Meta-Analysis Approach to Study the Prevalence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease among Current, Former and Non-Smokers. Toxicology ...

Different causal genes are now shown to distinguish individuals with HHT from ‘HHT-like’ vasculopathies that overlap phenotypically with HHT. 13–15 The spectrum of two CM-AVM syndromes is particularly ...

Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common type of lung cancer, making up about 80 to 85 percent of all cases. [1] It’s referred to as metastatic NSCLC when it has spread from the ...

In contrast, lung cancer in never-smokers is almost exclusively adenocarcinoma – a type which starts in mucus-producing cells – which is now the most common form of lung cancer in both smokers ...