In honor of World Interstitial Lung Disease Day, the American Lung Association is launching a national campaign to raise ...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis slowly turns the lungs stiff and scarred, but researchers may have found why the damage keeps building. Their work points to a survival signal inside key cells, and to a ...

UVA Health lung researchers are developing a promising approach to detecting patients at risk of interstitial lung disease (ILD), an increasingly common condition that is a leading reason for lung ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many respiratory viral infections can cause long-term symptoms. sbk_20d pictures/Moment via Getty Images The long-term effects of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic engulfed the U.S. five years ago this month, leaving not only lingering mental health effects but also long-term physical symptoms. One of those included a condition known as ...

For patients affected by lung diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis and others, cures for their diseases are incredibly rare, if not nonexistent. ...

Could GLP-1s hold the key to protecting people with diabetes against long COVID? Image credit: Jon Challicom/ Getty ImagesThis article originally appeared onMedical News Today Researchers from the ...

A new study has revealed an e-cigarette user has been diagnosed with a rare form of lung scarring - typically found in metal workers. Researchers studying a patient with a rare lung disease think ...

The long-term effects of respiratory viral infections such as COVID-19 are a major public health burden. Some estimates suggest over 65 million people around the world suffer from long COVID-19.

Why Lung Scarring Becomes Permanent Pulmonary fibrosis develops after repeated injury to the cells lining the lungs’ air sacs. In healthy repair, fibroblasts briefly activate to rebuild damaged tissue ...