A groundbreaking UCSF study challenges the long-held belief that blood is solely produced in bone marrow. Researchers discovered that lungs contain active blood-forming stem cells, capable of ...

Air pollution is a global health concern, with over 90% of the world's population breathing air that exceeds World Health ...

After scoring U.S. states on lung health-related environmental and behavioral factors, Colorado and Hawaii emerged as the best places to live for this type of health, according to study results from ...

Many lung cancers in nonsmokers have no known cause and are discovered only by chance.

Visible on chest CT scans, post-COVID-19 residual lung abnormalities, which affect up to 50% of patients who have had an ...

People living in high pollution areas may rack up DNA glitches that trigger lung cancer, scientists suggest July 2 in Nature. Those glitches can include mutations that hobble the very genes that ...

Lung function tests (or pulmonary function tests) include a variety of tests that check how well the lungs work.

Lung cancer may be curable, depending on a number of factors, including your age, health, stage of cancer, and how it ...

Key results None of the treatments compared with placebo have shown a difference in the risk for lung cancer incidence or lung cancer mortality in healthy people. In smokers and people exposed to ...

Flying can put you at risk of dehydration, thrombosis, lung and heart issues, and high blood pressure, so follow these tips to stay safe.

Early-stage lung cancer sometimes causes finger clubbing, a harmless symptom that usually resolves when the cancer is treated.