Jan. 9, 2025 — Researchers have shown that a test called ORACLE can predict lung cancer survival at the point of diagnosis better than currently used clinical risk factors. This could help ...

A lung biopsy involves the removal of tissue or growths from the lungs. A doctor will use special devices, such as a fine needle, to remove the sample. A lung biopsy can help diagnose lung ...

According to the latest statistics from the American Cancer Society, incidence rates of lung cancer are now higher in women than in men among people younger than 65 years. Overall, though, the news ...

The concave zone of papillary calculi can contain a range of calcified lesions, from little HAP residues to typical well-developed HAP plaques, also known as Randall's plaques. The morphology of ...

Research is still in the early stages of how vaping affects lungs – but worrying conditions, like ‘popcorn lung’, are on the rise. Dr Stephen Broderick, of John Hopkins Medicine, has now ...

Real-time observation of certain biochemical processes in blood vessels from mice has revealed a previously unknown similarity between atherosclerosis, also known as vascular calcification ...

From the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, SP, Brazil (L.A.P., L.F.G., M.L.) Laboratório de Biologia Vascular, Instituto do Coração (InCor), Hospital ...

Breathing is something we do every moment, yet we rarely think about the health of our lungs until a problem arises. With rising pollution levels, smoking, and other environmental toxins ...

Ginger, echinacea, and curcumin are just a few of the herbs that you may hear about when looking into natural remedies for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or other respiratory conditions.

Axial and coronal unenhanced thin-slice chest HRCT scans (A and B, respectively) in a 25-year-old male cannabis smoker, showing a large (5 cm) bulla (white arrows), sharply demarcated by a thin wall ...