Doctors have an important message for musicians: Don’t forget to clean your instruments. It could be a matter of life and death. Their warning was inspired by a 61-year-old British bagpipe player who ...

It seems that the laments of those who feel the sounds of bagpipes are akin to suffering an extremely long, slow, and painful death may be truer than they imagined: the traditional instrument could be ...

LONDON (AFP) - Musicians were warned on Tuesday (Aug 23) to clean their wind instruments regularly after British doctors reported that "bagpipe lung" had killed a man who inhaled fungi growing inside ...

Players of wind instruments need to clean them regularly, doctors explaining a bagpipe player’s death warn. An article published Monday in the British Medical Journal, described a 61-year-old British ...

Doctors have warned musicians who play wind instruments of a potential hazard they have dubbed 'bagpipe lung.' Doctors writing in the journal Thorax have warned musicians who play wind instruments of ...

A case report published Monday in the journal Thorax shares the story of the man, who developed a dry cough that became progressively worse over seven years. He once was able to finish 10K races, but ...