In asthma, the airways become hyperresponsive. Researchers have found a new mechanism that contributes to, and explains, airway hyperresponsiveness.
The team believes that evacuation efforts and media coverage of local wildfires may have helped protect residents from adverse health effects of smoke exposure as
Scientists have implicated a type of immune cell in the development of chronic lung disease that sometimes is triggered following a respiratory viral infection. The
A team of engineers has identified the ‘violent’ physical processes at work inside the lungs which cause wheezing, a condition which affects up to a
A new study reveals evidence that early exposure to dirty air alters genes in a way that could lead to adult heart disease, among other