The Childhood Roots of Adult Lung Disease —Events in early childhood contribute to poor adult lung function, but it is unclear whether there are specific lung function tracks that persist from ...

The hilum — or root — functions much like a plant root, securing each lung in place and providing a channel for energy to pass through.

Respiratory infections peak during the winter months, and most people recover within a few weeks. But for those with a rare genetic lung disease, the sniffling, coughing and congestion never end.

Two links in the genetic chain could predispose some people to a fatal lung disease. Scientists at Johns Hopkins identified the genetic culprits that trigger a hereditary form of a fatal lung ...

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health evaluated 18 patients with lung damage caused by COVID-19. They had died in 2020 from March through July.

People whose cilia don't beat suffer repeated lung, ear and sinus infections. Credit: Amjad Horani Primary ciliary dyskinesia affects about one in 15,000 people.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Insmed's daily bronchiectasis pill, brensocatib, which will be sold under ...

A first-in-class reversible dipeptidyl peptidase-1 (DPP-1) inhibitor, brensocatib addresses the underlying inflammatory ...