"This is comparable to the tobacco industry saying cigarettes are safe." Incurable lung disease once linked to mining hits ...

Respiratory illnesses such as COVID-19 and influenza are usually thought of as short-term infections that cause fever, cough, ...

The national average is 15.8%. Overall in Orange County, 9.2% are smokers; in Los Angeles County, it’s 11.2%; in Riverside County, 11.5%; and in San Bernardino County, 12.3%, according to the CDC data ...

I’M JENNIFER BAILEYS LINDSAY THURMAN WITH THE AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION IS HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE FIGHT FOR AIR CLIMB. I LOVE THIS NAME EVERY YEAR LINDSAY WHAT IS THIS CLIMB ALL ABOUT? SO THIS CLIMB ...

In a bar, a poet meets the man behind the drug that saved his life — discovering how science, faith and chance created a future thought impossible.

Spencer Laird was diagnosed with colon cancer at 26. At 30, he was told it had returned and spread to his lungs, with one ...

St. Luke’s University Health Network has been designated as a Care Center within the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation’s nationally recognized Care Center Network, expanding access to specialized care ...

Spencer Laird was diagnosed with colon cancer at 26. At 30, he was told it had returned and spread to his lungs, with one tumor the size of a golf ball.

DLCO declined earliest, falling measurably about 10 years before the defined onset. By five years before onset, DLCO had ...

As cannabis becomes more widely used around the world, scientists are paying closer attention to how it affects human health.

A disease called silicosis has affected miners for nearly a century, but now, it's resurfacing in countertop fabrication shops across the U.S., specifically those that manufacture engineered quartz.

A new California law aims to protect workers from silicosis, an incurable lung disease that has killed 29 people in the state ...