Severe COVID-19 and influenza infections prime the lungs for cancer and can accelerate the disease's development, but vaccination heads off those harmful effects, new research from UVA Health's Beirne ...

Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S., killing hundreds of people every day, according to the American Lung Association. While more people are surviving lung cancer than ...

In a recent opinion piece published in the journal Trends in Cancer, researchers examined the rising global burden of lung cancer in people with no history of smoking. This phenomenon requires its own ...

A Los Angeles County jury awarded $25 million to Roland Esparza, who alleged that years of using Conagra Brands’ butter-flavored PAM cooking spray led to a severe lung disease, and that the company ...

Two relatively new viruses with animal origins have been flying under the radar but are ripe to evolve and risk future epidemics and pandemics. This is the warning of scientists from the University of ...

ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — A family from Rockingham County has been traveling to and from Triad hospitals for more than a week while their immunocompromised son is getting intensive care after a ...

Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker T.J. Watt suffered a partially collapsed lung after undergoing a dry needling treatment session at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex on Wednesday, his brother J.J. Watt ...

Well, the cause of Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker T.J. Watt's partial lung collapse has finally been revealed. According to his brother J.J., the injury was suffered during a dry needling session at ...

Pneumonia is a common lung infection that can make breathing difficult and, in some cases, become life-threatening. It happens when the air sacs in the lungs fill with fluid or pus. Each year, about ...

Pneumonia is a disease that burdens the health care system with more than 1.2 million emergency room visits each year and more than 41,000 adult deaths in the United States. Worldwide, more than one ...

The relationship between marijuana usage and lung health is a complex issue that isn’t fully understood by medical professionals. In light of changing marijuana laws that have made marijuana legal in ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Deaths from lung cancer in Cuyahoga County are slowly dropping, but it remains the deadliest form of the disease in the region. It accounted for 23% of all cancer deaths in Cuyahoga ...