The randomized NLST had shown that three rounds of annual screening with low-dose CT reduced lung cancer mortality by 20% among current and former smokers as compared with the same number of annual ...

chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and ... How a New Gut Microbe Drives the Gut-Lung Axis Dec. 19, 2024 — A team has discovered a new communication pathway between the gut and lung.

Image credit: Visual Vic/Getty Images. Researchers estimate the number of people globally living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) will hit 600 million by 2050. There are certain ...

A discovery at Duke-NUS Medical School offers new hope in the battle against pulmonary fibrosis, a debilitating lung ...

A better understanding of inflammation and lung immunity over the past two decades has led to new, innovative treatments for ...

The median length of survival for individuals with ILD who completed pulmonary rehabilitation was 6.1 years vs 4.7 years in the control group. Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) may improve survival at 5 ...

Respiratory diseases are a challenging problem to treat. Inhalable medicines are a promising solution that depend on the ability to deliver tiny particles known as aerosols to the correct location in ...

Objective: To investigate the prevalence of daytime hypercapnia in patients with OSAS; the association of daytime hypercapnia and obesity, obstructive airflow limitation, restrictive lung ...

Quantitative assessment of the proliferative response of bronchoalveolar mononuclear cells to specific agents is a useful diagnostic test; a well-studied example is chronic beryllium disease.

Method We analysed the data from 5176 adults aged 40 years and older who participated in the initial cross-sectional phase of the population-based, prospective, multisite Canadian Cohort of ...

According to some research, the average age for a type 2 diabetes diagnosis is 47.9 years. In addition, nearly 27% of people with the disease are over age 65. Low blood sugar is also a concern.