More Lung Health News

• Gene Mutation Tied to Inherited Fatal Lung Disease

  December 30 (HealthDay News) -- A mutation in a gene previously found to help protect ...

• Climate Change May Boost Contact with Pollutants

  December 26 (HealthDay News) -- Global climate change may lead to a rise in health ...

• Drug Shields Mice from Emphysema

  December 22 (HealthDay News) -- In experiments in mice, scientists have shown that a new ...

• Almost Half of Kids Still Exposed to Secondhand Smoke

  Dec. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Despite progress in establishing clean indoor air policies, 42 percent ...

• Scientists Spot Key to Cystic Fibrosis Infections

  December 16 (HealthDay News) -- Blue-green pigments called phenazines that stain the mucus in the ...

• Most Mt. Everest Deaths Occur Near Summit During Descent

  Dec. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Most deaths on Mount Everest occur during descents from the ...

• Lung Disease Tied to Increased Risk for Cardiac Events

  December 5 (HealthDay News) -- People with the deadly lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) ...

• Gene Tied to Infants' Lung Maturation

  December 4 (HealthDay News) -- A gene vital to lung development in newborn mice might ...

• Breathing Exercises Can Help Ease Asthma

  December 3 (HealthDay News) -- While asthma breathing exercises can improve a patient's quality of ...

• Folate in Early Pregnancy May Boost Wheezing in Baby

  December 2 (HealthDay News) -- Infants whose mothers take folic acid (folate) during early pregnancy ...

• Steroid Inhalers Raise Pneumonia Risk for Lung Disease Patients

  November 25 (HealthDay News) -- A new review of existing data confirms that some common ...

• Exhaust From Railroad Diesel Linked to Lung Ailments

  November 25 (HealthDay News) -- Long-term exposure to diesel exhaust fumes may increase the risk ...

• Long-Term Erythromycin Cut COPD Complications

  November 21 (HealthDay News) -- People with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) ...

• Estrogen May Explain Why Women with Cystic Fibrosis Suffer More

  November 20 (HealthDay News) -- Higher levels of estrogen during ovulation may explain why women ...

• Smokeout '08: The Perfect Time to Quit

  WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Everyone knows smoking is bad for you. Really bad. But ...

• Airway Transplant Aided by Stem Cells a Medical First

  November 18 (HealthDay News) -- In a medical first, a 30-year-old mother of two has ...

• Drug-Resistant TB Declines in United States

  November 11 (HealthDay News) -- Running contrary to what is occurring elsewhere in the world, ...

• TB Strain Called a Growing Public Threat

  November 7 (HealthDay News) -- Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), is becoming more common and more ...

• Earlier Vaccination Could Cut Whooping Cough Deaths

  November 3 (HealthDay News) -- Giving infants a routine pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine two weeks ...