Other conditions can look like cystic lung disease, such as emphysema and honeycomb lung. To confirm that you have it, your doctor will check things like how much air your lungs can hold.

An international study found that air pollution leads to more cancer-related genetic changes than secondhand smoke.

Pope Francis, history’s first pontiff from Latin America, has died.The 88-year-old religious leader battled chronic lung disease throughout his life, ending in over a monthlong hospitalization ...

Lung diseases are the second leading cause of life-years lost due to disability or premature death. In Uganda, 30 percent of the hospital visits are related to lung conditions.

Published in Nature Communications, the study shows that a small gene named let-7 functions as a guardian of the lungs' health and healing processes. When the gene is absent in mice, injured lungs ...

The secrets of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) are written in its very name. Idiopathic refers to a disease of unknown ...

An unnamed 80-year-old woman in West Virginia with a potentially life-threatening lung complication is thought to have ...

Lung cancer researcher, Bryant Kin, has been diagnosed with the disease despite never smoking himself in his life, he's revealed.

Rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD) can develop due to the immune system attacking the lungs. RA-ILD occurs in 5% to 10% of people with RA.

Rates of incurable lung disease are higher than previously thought, a study across 12 countries suggests. Tests in almost 9,500 adults aged over 40 found one in 10 had chronic obstructive respiratory ...

Source Reference: England BR, et al "Advanced therapies in US veterans with rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease: a retrospective, active-comparator, new-user, cohort study ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that, as of Dec. 10, there have been 2,409 EVALI cases resulting in hospitalization and 52 in deaths, with instances in all 50 states as well as ...