A six year old born with a rare lung condition is going to walk the equivalent of the distance from his home to Legoland in ...

Pulmonary sequestration (PS) is a rare congenital lung developmental anomaly characterized by abnormal lung tissue that receives its blood supply from the aorta. Among the various types, mixed ...

You may be given bronchodilator medication to increase airflow to your lungs. Your doctor may recommend pulmonary rehabilitation, a program designed to increase your awareness about your condition.

To diagnose chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), doctors typically use spirometry to measure your lung function. They usually also perform other tests to monitor the damage to your lungs.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and pulmonary fibrosis (also called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or IPF) are both serious lifelong diseases that make it hard for you to breathe.

Enoch Burke has spent more than 500 days in Mountjoy Prison for refusing to abide by a court order to stay away from Wilson's Hospital School. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin. Tue, 21 Jan ...

Five percent of the Great Salt Lake playa is fine particulate matter that can enter the lungs and cause a range of pulmonary problems, and particularly troublesome, the scientists say, is the presence ...

It pumps blood into your lungs through the pulmonary arteries. These blood vessels can have diseases, as well. The pleura is the thin lining that surrounds your lung and lines the inside of your ...

Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is an exercise and education programme designed to help people with lung disease in managing symptoms of chronic breathlessness. This document sets out standards that ...