Background Vitamin A, an essential micronutrient obtained through the diet, plays a crucial role in lung development and contributes to lung regeneration. We aimed to investigate its effect on adult ...

Participants Seventy-eight adults with obstructive airway disease comprised those with stable asthma (n=39), COPD (n=20) and bronchiectasis (n=19) and 20 healthy controls ... lower forced expiratory ...

Taking care of your lungs doesn’t have to be complicated. These five easy breathing exercises can help detoxify your lungs and improve their capacity over time. The key is consistency—just a ...

LOS ANGELES—January 26, 2025—As contemporary surgical practice continues to evolve, patients who undergo surgical lung volume reduction (LVRS) for advanced emphysema may survive longer and ...

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 ...

These are the latest in a series of lung-related health concerns that have plagued Francis, and it’s a reminder for older adults to take respiratory infections seriously — even if you’re not ...

However, for many people, these added years do not mean healthy years. More than 80% of adults do not meet the recommendations for physical activity from the Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines.

The 148 lung transplants the health system performed last year were the most it has ever done in a year. And now Northwestern Medicine is the highest volume lung transplant center in the U.S ...

For decades, doctors told healthy older adults to take low-dose aspirin (usually 81 milligrams) every day because aspirin acts as a blood thinner and reduces the clotting that can spur on a heart ...

Dr. Maor Sauler, who specializes in adult pulmonary and critical care at Yale University, said that antibiotics typically need the lungs to be ... The Associated Press Health and Science ...