Sabari recommends regular activity, such as walking 30 minutes a day several times a week, to help maintain lung strength.

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 ...

This Nature Outlook is editorially independent, produced with financial support from Boehringer Ingelheim. About this content. Humans can’t survive without taking a breath. And the lungs are the ...

Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have developed a tool that can identify airway mucus abnormalities in patients with ...

An estimated 16 million adults in the U.S. have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a lung disease characterized by limited lung airflow. Its symptoms include shortness of breath, wheezing, a cough ...

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- Even if you think you have healthy lungs, a local doctor warns you could be compromised. Dr. Fahad Omar, a pulmonologist with Del Sol Medical Center, is urging you to check in ...

Christy Houvouras exercises daily, eats right and has smoked fewer than 20 cigarettes in her lifetime. That’s why she was shocked when she was diagnosed with lung cancer at just 36 years old in July. ...

Dylan Bailey, M.S., R.D., F.A.N.D. Contributor Dylan is a registered dietitian and fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics who works to ensure accuracy in reporting science and research ...