SNOW THAT’S COMING UP? RIGHT NOW, THE CDC SAYS NEW HAMPSHIRE HAS SOME OF THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF RESPIRATORY ILLNESSES IN THE COUNTRY. THE LATEST MAP FROM THE CDC SHOWS ONLY TWO STATES WITH VERY ...

Glox Therapeutics Ltd. has been awarded a share of a £3 million (US$3.7 million) collaborative discovery program launched by the Cystic Fibrosis Antimicrobial Resistance (CF AMR) syndicate. The ...

Vaccination coverage remains low, however, meaning "many children and adults lack protection from respiratory virus infections provided by vaccines," according to the CDC. Nearly half of all ...

This shows how, by altering the behaviour of these immune cells, chronic exposure to cigarette smoke can reduce their capacity to combat respiratory infections and increases the risk of chronic ...

The iron lung, conceptualized in the late 1920s, was most notably the first line of defense against polio during the epidemics that occurred between 1948 to 1955. The device saved the lives of ...

Our kids and everyone with lungs will pay the price for these politically motivated rollbacks of protections for our air and the climate,” Dan Becker, director of the Center for Biological ...

TODAY THEY TOLD ME 50% OF THE PATIENTS THEY ARE SEEING RIGHT NOW HAVE SOME SORT OF RESPIRATORY VIRUS. AND UNFORTUNATELY, THEY SAY WE’RE NOT EVEN AT PEAK SEASON YET. IT IS BUSY. I DON’T WANT TO PRETEND ...

LEGENDARY director David Lynch passed away at the age of 78, after revealing he'd suffered from a terrifying lung disease that left him barely able to "walk across a room". The filmmaker ...

Doctors tell ABC News they agree but, with few cases that have an unknown -- or unclear -- source of infection, there may be evidence of some cases slipping through the cracks. "There are ...

Cigarette smoking is known to impair the immune system's response to infections and promote inflammation in the lungs that can lead to or exacerbate COPD, the third leading cause of death worldwide.