Synchrony Medical announced that it received FDA 510 (k) clearance for its LibAirty airway clearance system.

Quantitative CT is becoming increasingly common for the characterisation of lung disease; however, its added potential as a clinical tool for predicting severe exacerbations remains understudied. We ...

Obstructive sleep apnea is still largely undiagnosed and untreated. In a growing marketplace of solutions, can negative ...

The CAAT governance board recommends transitioning from the COPD Assessment Test to the CAAT and using it for patients with ...

Background Chronic bronchitis (CB) is strongly associated with cigarette smoking, but not all smokers develop CB. We aimed to evaluate whether measures of structural airway disease on CT are ...

The Lancet on the anti-IL-5 antibody mepolizumab in individuals with allergic asthma, evidence has accumulated that the pathogenetic role of eosinophils is fundamentally different between asthma ...

Pediatricians like me are worried that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine advisers will make it harder for children to get the ...

The prevalence of respiratory and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are the main factors driving the rise in ...

Bronchiectasis causes your airways, called bronchi, to become damaged and widened over time. When you have bronchiectasis, ...

Loss of a key immune protein disrupted cell signaling and defense, revealing a novel driver of chronic airway inflammation in ...

Upper airway disease can be a manifestation of sarcoidosis. Although the lung and mediastinum are more usual locations, the granulomas of sarcoidosis can affect the entire respiratory tree including ...

Disease of small airways may be common to various chronic obstructive lung diseases. Because R p is normally so small, there may be considerable obstruction in peripheral airways that would affect ...