The American Lung Association hosted its 18th annual stair climb in Milwaukee, where participants, including firefighters, climbed 30 stories to raise funds and awareness for lung health.

Bronchiolitis remains the leading cause of hospital admission in infancy and of paediatric intensive care unit use.1 Management of bronchiolitis has been largely limited to supportive care, reflecting ...

A new law aims to protect workers from silicosis, a lung disease linked to popular household countertops. Experts say it ...

Dr. Jeffrey Yang from Mass. General Brigham discusses some of the new risk factors for lung cancer, many of which don't even involve smoking.

Dr. Sheeva Talebian is haunted by how long “we’ve conditioned women to believe that debilitating pain is normal.” It’s a ...

Ultimately, González was diagnosed with silicosis, a distinct form of pulmonary fibrosis, or severe lung scarring. Silicosis is a condition that once "was synonymous with mining disasters," the CBS ...

Aspergillus fungus thrives because its genome bends easily to new pressures. It lives on soil, grains, animal feathers, even coral skeletons.

For the first time in Oregon, a deadly fungal disease has been detected in the state's population of bats. A notorious disease known as white-nose syndrome was detected in several bats in Columbia and ...

A newly identified disease affecting corn and sorghum can closely resemble iron deficiency, potentially leading farmers to apply costly nutrient treatments that do not address the underlying problem.

A deadly fungal disease that has put at least one bat species on the federal Endangered Species List has been detected in ...

Considering how difficult it is to clean glitter out of a rug, it’s no stretch to imagine the challenge of removing it from the lungs.  But that’s exactly the kind of task a group of doctors in ...

Climate change might intensify dust storms, causing more respiratory health risks.