Accumulation of clots causes some of the most severe symptoms of sickle cell disease, including strokes, kidney failure, ...

Rising air pollution, changes in hormone levels, immune system imbalances and longer life expectancy are increasing the risk ...

Blood clots form in response to signals from the lungs of cancer patients—not from other organ sites, as previously ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — Despite new medication, cystic fibrosis often leads to permanent lung damage. Researchers have discovered that the disease causes changes in the immune system early in life ...

Scientists uncover an enzyme that boosts cancer cell metabolism to fuel growth. The enzyme, GUK1, supports metabolism in cancer cells to help tumors grow.

No matter what causes air pollution, it continues to increase throughout the United States, with over 131 million people ...

Exposures to silica dust, solvents or heavy metals increase the likelihood of developing various forms of myositis, ...

HISTOPLASMOSIS is a fungous disease that is almost world wide in distribution but is most frequently seen in an area of the United States roughly defined as the Mississippi Valley. Millions of ...

A team of researchers say they want to look at what exposure to toxins from thousands of burned structures does to people ...

gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), asthma, allergies, smoking, medications like ACE inhibitors, and others. Very rarely, a chronic cough may be a sign of a more serious condition like lung ...

Multiple large lung bullae (variously termed primary bullous disease of the lung or “vanishing lung syndrome”) have been described in young male smokers.1 In this case series the average smoking ...

nbt.nhs.uk Secondary pneumothorax (SSP) is associated with underlying lung disease, in distinction to PSP, although tuberculosis is no longer the commonest underlying lung disease in the developed ...