It’s the time of the year when you notice coughs and sneezes all around you. Half the country seems to be sick with some form of a cold and it feels impossible to escape the epidemic of sniffles, ...

Patients with COPD are at increased risk for infections, making avoidance and effective treatments key in management.

New research has identified the mechanism by which air pollution damages the lungs’ self-cleaning system, leaving us vulnerable to infection. In doing so, it has also identified a way to reverse that ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with cystic fibrosis are susceptible to serious lung infections. Delivering antibiotics through liquid ...

Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are investigating how mechanical forces—such as stretching and changes in tissue stiffness—influence viral infection rates in the lungs to understand ...

Influenza (flu) can be fatal, but just how it causes severe damage to the lungs has been a mystery—until now. New research ...

Investigators involved in a multicenter study co-led by Cedars-Sinai discovered a pathway by which immune cells prevent the lungs' protective barrier from healing after viral infections like COVID-19.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is responding well to the treatment for double pneumonia and has shown a “gradual, slight improvement” in recent days, the Vatican said Saturday. But his doctors have decided ...

The New York City Health Department is investigating a Legionnaires' disease cluster in Central Harlem that has killed at least two people and sickened more than 50 others, the agency reported on Aug.