In the United States, the annual death rate is at over three million. Knowing the top ten diseases responsible for U.S.

Did you see this? Nearly 1 in 10 Americans have asthma. Here's what causes it.

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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 ...

Right now, approximately 20 billion red blood cells are busy traveling through your blood vessels. They are delivering oxygen ...

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Marking Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Day 2025 on February 2, it's essential to shed light on the often-overlooked connection between RA and lung health. Can rheumatoid arthritis cause lung damage?

Despite new medication, cystic fibrosis often leads to permanent lung damage. Working with an international team, researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have discovered that the ...

Lung cancer is a particularly challenging form of cancer. It often strikes unexpectedly and aggressively with little warning, and it can shapeshift in unpredictable ways to evade treatment.

In 2024, pneumonia was listed as the fourth leading cause of death in the Philippines by the Philippine Statistics Authority ...

Lung cancer in never-smokers is also occurring almost exclusively as adenocarcinoma, which has become the most dominant of ...