A major German study finds that early repeated antibiotic use in very low-birth-weight infants can have lasting effects on lung health, highlighting the importance of antibiotic stewardship and ...

Air quality regulators in Southern California are debating proposed rules that would curb harmful emissions from gas-powered ...

Extremely preterm newborns who weigh less than 3.3 pounds have immature lungs that often require high levels of ventilation ...

Trump administration targets environmental rules that experts say prevent thousands of deaths and save billions in health ...

A relatively new therapy used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension in those with mild to moderate disease was found to be effective at preventing death in those with more advanced disease.

With temperatures creeping toward 90 degrees Wednesday and the milky veil of smoke persisting over the region, the Delaware ...

Premature infants born with underdeveloped lungs lack surfactant, a naturally occurring substance that reduces surface tension and keeps airways open. In many parts of the world, particularly low ...

The parents of a premature baby boy who died just hours after his birth have described the care he received in hospital as ...

In a study published in the journal Science Advances, we found that wildfire smoke likely contributed to more than 52,000 premature deaths ... travel deep into the lungs and even enter the ...

The danger with lung cancer is that symptoms often don't appear until the harmful cells have spread throughout the body. However, there might be a few early signs of the disease that you could notice.