The GOLD 2024/2025 reports underscore the importance of spirometry in confirming a COPD diagnosis, with a post-bronchodilator ...

The breath-holding test provides a fast method to evaluate your lung capacity together, with breathing control abilities.

Your lungs might be ageing faster than your body, a new study reveals. Factors like pollution, smoking, and infections accelerate lung decline, often ...

A pilot program in six states will use a tactic employed by private insurers that has been heavily criticized for delaying and denying medical care. By Reed Abelson and Teddy Rosenbluth Like millions ...

1 Direcció d’Atenció Primària, Camp de Tarragona, Institut Català de la Salut, Tarragona, Spain 2 Unitat de Suport a la Recerca Tarragona-Reus, Fundació Institut Universitari per a la Recerca a ...

1 Laboratory of Physiology and Functional Explorations, Department of Medicine, Alioune Diop University of Bambey (UADB), Bambey, Senegal. 2 IRL 3189 Environment, Health, Societies, CNRS-UCAD, Dakar, ...

Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common preventable and treatable chronic respiratory disease, which affects 210 million people globally. Global and national guidelines ...

The current study was conducted on eight poultry farms in Lahore and Sheikhupura to monitor environmental conditions, determine workers’ health status and assess the implementation of standard ...

Spirometry is a lung function test that measures how much air you can inhale and exhale, as well as how forcefully you can breathe out. It’s a simple but important test used to diagnose and monitor ...

A transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS for short) is a procedure meant to help blood flow more easily through your liver. It’s usually done to treat complications caused by liver damage ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

As a person with a chronic illness, I'm no stranger to bloodwork. I used to pore over my lab results, googling the various meanings, and trying not to panic when a test fell out of range. Function ...