While there is no general consensus on this, the Ohio State University estimates the safe limit for holding your breath at 1 ...

Worried about lung health amid rising air pollution? A chest surgeon explains a simple breath-holding test you can try at ...

An emphysema diagnosis typically involves a comprehensive review of the person’s medical history, including symptoms, risk factors, and existing medical conditions, to differentiate it from similar ...

One of the largest studies to investigate whether Preserved Ratio Impaired Spirometry (PRISm), an understudied low lung function state, is an early predictor of co-morbidities has found it is strongly ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Long-time smokers and former smokers are eligible to be screened every year for lung cancer. But Temple Health says adding a simple test could tell doctors so much more.

As air pollution in Stockholm has decreased, so has the lung capacity of children and adolescents has improved, a new study reports. The researchers consider the results important, since the lung ...

ROSTRAVER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Cancer is a disease that has touched most families in some capacity. The one that kills the most people annually is lung cancer. The reason why is most people don’t get ...

A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by "la Caixa" Foundation, in collaboration with the Clínic-IDIBAPS, has shown for the first time, how lung ...