More than 11 million people in the United States are living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including more ...

A vitamin found in eggs and milk could hold the key to curing the potentially fatal lung disease emphysema, new research has revealed. British scientists have found that retinoic acid, a ...

Lower pulmonary microvascular blood volume (PMBV) is associated with greater percent emphysema in those with a diffuse emphysema subtype.

The following is a summary of “Association of Ground-Glass Opacities with Systemic Inflammation and Progression of Emphysema, ...

MEDIASTINAL emphysema, its precursors and its sequelae have been known to clinicians for well over a century. Laënnec, 1 in his treatise on diseases of the chest, published in 1819, gave an ...

It is then released into the air. When you inhale excessive levels of radon, it can raise your risk of serious conditions ...

Mild to moderate COPD with vs without emphysema is associated with significantly worse HRQOL, but similar lung function decline.

David Lynch cannot leave his house due to emphysema. A visionary film director and multifaceted artist, Lynch revealed in an interview with People the darkest side of his life: a long-standing ...

These are some of the common challenges for people with advanced COPD/emphysema, where breathlessness can become so debilitating that it impacts nearly every aspect of daily life. Emphysema ...

In contrast to another recent study suggesting that smoking cannabis is more likely to cause emphysema than smoking tobacco, researchers in this study found that smoking cannabis alone was not ...