A 40-year-old Hispanic man from Massachusetts is the state's first confirmed case of silicosis from working with engineered stone countertops. He spent 14 years cutting, polishing, and installing ...

Pulmonologists and cardiologists working in heavily polluted cities such as Delhi said the effects are visible in daily ...

Just two months after reviving its prowess in the idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) treatment area with rare lung disease ...

Massachusetts has reported its first case of silicosis, a fatal and incurable lung disease spread from dust produced when ...

The absence of a single immune cell receptor has been linked to both fewer defenses against mycobacterial infections, such as TB, and damaging buildup of sticky residue in the lungs. The macrophage is ...

A popular material for kitchen countertops has been linked to a life-threatening lung disease, silicosis. Health officials in ...

A ministerial claim that there is no direct correlation between air pollution and lung disease contradicts decades of global ...

Also known as coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, black lung disease (or miner’s lung) is typically the result of inhaling coal dust for many years that causes scarring in the lungs and makes breathing ...

Health officials warn of a preventable but potentially fatal lung disease linked to quartz countertops. Massachusetts ...

Texas A&M professor shares 8 common stressors that can weaken an animal’s defenses, enabling bacteria to reach the lungs and cause disease.

Marit's lung condition has worsened, and her doctors are considering a lung transplant, the royal palace announced Friday.