People with type 2 diabetes who take GLP-1 and SGLT-2 medications have a lower risk of having COPD symptom flare-ups than ...

Several cardiovascular risk factors, such as advanced age and smoking history, are prevalent among lung cancer patients at ...

People in rural areas are at greater risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) due to a variety of factors. We explain why.

Children diagnosed with interstitial lung disease often survive into adulthood, when they are likely to need care for related impairments.

Instead of using rays, chemotherapy uses drugs to do battle with the disease. It's the most common treatment for small cell lung cancer and often takes several months to complete. The treatment ...

Lung ultrasound (LUS) may be an effective screening tool with a high negative predictive value for interstitial lung disease (ILD) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who are asymptomatic, ...

INTERSTITIAL cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS ... The study also noted that IC patients had a higher prevalence of autoimmune diseases and more severe quality of life impairment. Nighttime ...

Polio is a debilitating disease that invades the body’s nervous ... of thousands of people globally every year. The iron lung, conceptualized in the late 1920s, was most notably the first ...

COPD patients are more susceptible to influenza infections that can, in turn, worsen the underlying disease by increasing airway inflammation and promoting the destruction of the lung’s air sacs.

High blood pressure affects multiple organs. Not only can hypertension add stress to the heart and damage arteries, leading to heart disease, but it also can cause strokes and kidney disease as ...