Researchers discover how cigarette smoke impairs critical lung immune cells
Cigarette smoking is widespread and deadly, yet our understanding of how cigarette smoke actually causes serious respiratory illnesses is incomplete,…
Cigarette smoking is widespread and deadly, yet our understanding of how cigarette smoke actually causes serious respiratory illnesses is incomplete,…
Dietary zinc deficiency promotes lung infection by Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria — a leading cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia, according to a…
Cystic fibrosis is one of the most common genetic disorders, causing thick mucus build-up in the lungs and other parts…
Findings from a new study conducted by a team of researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and published in the journal mBio,…
Groundbreaking research published today in Nature Genetics describes the largest-ever study into the genetics of random “round-the-clock” blood glucose levels….
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is leading an awareness campaign that aims to reduce missed or…
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients newly prescribed non-benzodiazepine benzodiazepine receptor agonists (NBZRAs) such as zolpidem (Ambien, Intermezzo and other brands),…
A study conducted by researchers at the University of Liège on group 2 innate lymphoid cells (or ILC2s) shows that…
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) — a debilitating chronic lung disease that includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis — has previously…
Researchers at Mass Eye and Ear and Northeastern University have discovered a previously unidentified immune response inside the nose that…
Adults with asthma had, at one point, an approximately doubled risk of a severe asthma attack after Covid-19 restrictions were…
Researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health have found that dual bronchodilators – long-lasting inhalers that relax the airways…
Antisense oligonucleotides, or ASOs, are molecules that can be used to control protein levels in cells. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory…
Asthma is a chronic condition that affects 25 million people in the United States. Having a mother with asthma is…
Patients with the most severe form of asthma produce special substances in their airways when taking medicine during an asthma…
In the past two years, COVID-19 has provoked anxiety throughout the world for people worried they and their loved ones…
A chip-based infection model developed by researchers in Jena, Germany, enables live microscopic observation of damage to lung tissue caused…
A collaboration among microbiologists, clinicians and experts on bacterial evolution revealed that, with time, highly adapted bacterial communities in the sinuses of people with cystic fibrosis (CF) become…
A team of researchers from UCLA, Cedars-Sinai and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has developed a first-of-its-kind molecular catalog of cells…
Wheezing, coughing that doesn’t stop, a pale and sweaty face: clinically, severe asthma attacks look very similar from patient to…
In asthma, the airways become hyperresponsive. Researchers from Uppsala University have found a new mechanism that contributes to, and explains,…