Lung cancer among never-smokers is rising worldwide. In one U.S. study of 12,000 lung cancer patients, the share of people who didn’t smoke rose from 8 to 15 percent over twenty years. A British ...

Dr. Drew Harris, a pulmonologist, shows an CT scan of a patient with black lung. Once a month, he drives more than 300 miles to St. Charles, Va., to see black lung patients.

FatCamera / Getty Images Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Non-small cell lung cancer is the most common type of lung cancer, making up 80% to 85% of all lung cancers. Subtypes of NSCLC, which start from ...

Her case is reminiscent of the 2019 Evali crisis (e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury), which saw 68 deaths and over 2,800 hospitalisations in the US.

Lung cancer is staged according to how large the tumor is and how far it has spread: Localized lung cancers are those that are still confined to the lung. Regional lung cancers have spread to nearby ...

Female never-smokers are more susceptible to lung cancer than males, according to the statistics. Young women who have never smoked, in particular, have more than twice the risk of developing lung ...

Post-COVID pulmonary fibrosis, which involves scarring of the lungs that can worsen over time and may require a lung transplant, affects some patients after infection, according to pulmonologists.

Lung cancer cases are increasing in people who have never smoked, especially in women, a new study by the World Health Organization’s cancer agency has found. The findings, published in The ...

Early acute rejection (AR) following lung transplantation can be effectively detected and graded by transbronchial biopsy (TBB) via bronchoscopy, with a low rate of pneumothorax (PX) complication, ...

Before the invention of the polio vaccine, the iron lung supported patients whose lungs were weakened or paralyzed by polio. This is its impact today.

Other related procedures that may be used to help diagnose problems of the lungs and respiratory tract include chest X-ray , CT scan of the chest , magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) , bronchoscopy , ...

Fluoroscopy, as an imaging tool, enables physicians to look at many body systems, including the skeletal, digestive, urinary, respiratory, and reproductive systems. Fluoroscopy may be performed to ...