Globally, more than 350 million people live with rare diseases, most of them caused by a misstep hidden within their genes.

Ndeye Lam visits the cemetery often, praying and gently touching the seashells laid out across her daughter’s gravesite. “Mariama will always be ...

People with diseases caused by rare mutations have fewer options and poorer prospects than other patients despite rapid ...

Those reclassified cases appeared to have lung pathology missed by the prior equations, as the newly abnormal group had ...

A rare cell type in the lungs is essential to survival from the COVID-19 virus, a new study shows.

Experiments in mice infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus revealed that the immune cell class in question, called nerve and ...

Scientists have discovered that a rare immune cell type in the lungs, called NAMs, plays a crucial role in surviving COVID-19 ...

Cindy was a healthy, 35-year-old woman with no symptoms of cancer when she joined the American Lung Association’s Lung Health Cohort Study.

Popcorn lung is more than just a strange name — it’s a serious, irreversible lung disease linked to chemicals in some vape ...

Stage Zero lung cancer, also referred to as non-small cell lung cancer, is the earliest stage at which the disease can be detected. It involves surgical removal, usually through lobectomy, which ...

In healthy individuals, this lung microbiome is dynamic; however, in interstitial lung disease (ILD) patients, there is a marked degeneration in microbial community composition. This deterioration has ...

Australia: A recent national study, the DISCOVERY study, highlights the significant benefits of long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) in managing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), interstitial ...