(June 10, 2003) Bethesda, MD – Environmental particles the size of those emanating from cigarette smoke and toxic aerosols interact with our pulmonary surfaces and may lead to lung disease. The ...

MUCH has been said in the past about the relation of chronic irritation to the development of cancer. Recent concepts are more specific and put carcinogenesis on a physicochemical basis in which the ...

The researchers found that bronchial airway samples from asthmatic patients contained far more bacteria than samples from healthy patients. The scientists also found greater bacterial diversity in the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . After bronchial thermoplasty, airway smooth muscle mass was significantly decreased after 6 months in adults ...

A new study by researchers at Yale and Johns Hopkins University has discovered how asthmatic bronchial spasms — muscle contractions in the airway that cause difficulty breathing in asthma patients— ...

The inherited progressive disorder cystic fibrosis (CF) causes severe damage to the lungs, and other tissues in the body by affecting the cells that produce mucus, sweat, and digestive juices. In ...

An airway disorder is a condition that affects your ability to breathe. The types of airway disorders seen in our outpatient clinic include disorders affecting the larynx (i.e., voice box), trachea (i ...

A recently published case report describes the case of a 36-year-old male chronic heart failure patient who, "spontaneously expectorated an intact cast of the right bronchial tree," following an ...

Advances in patient screenings and breakthrough therapies allow Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients now to live into their mid-to-late 30s or 40s, sometimes even longer. However, even the ~90% of patients ...

(BOSTON) — The inherited progressive disorder cystic fibrosis (CF) causes severe damage to the lungs, and other tissues in the body by affecting the cells that produce mucus, sweat, and digestive ...