The first randomized controlled trial to compare two different lung volume reduction procedures for people with emphysema has found that both lead to similar improvements in lung function, ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers measured the impact of initial respiratory droplet volume and relative humidity (RH) on the environmental stability of respiratory ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with healthy controls, young patients with sickle cell anemia demonstrated more abnormalities in lung ...

Chronic lung disease (CLD) of infancy represents the final common pathway of a heterogeneous group of pulmonary diseases that start in the neonatal period and usually evolve from acute respiratory ...

"Small lung syndrome" is proposed to address persistent low lung volume linked with comorbidities, requiring a new ICD code for accurate diagnosis. Early intervention in lung function trajectories can ...

Doctors sometimes recommend lung coils to help someone manage severe emphysema, especially when other treatments have been unsuccessful. Their benefits include increased lung volume, exercise capacity ...

Expiratory reserve volume is the amount of extra air above normal that you exhale during a forceful breath out. ERV is part of the data gathered in pulmonary function tests used to diagnose ...

The European Respiratory Society (ERS) and American Thoracic Society (ATS) just updated their standards for interpreting lung function testing. The last joint society update from these organizations ...

“I can’t breathe” became a rallying cry against racism in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd and Eric Garner at the hands of the police. But chokeholds are far from the main cause of race-based ...