Pope Leo XIV recently revealed he’ll be undergoing surgery to remove a nodular lesion discovered in his lungs.

Pope Leo XIV is scheduled to have an operation this week to remove a nodule in his lung. Here's what to know about lung ...

Chronic exposure to cigarette smoke may reprogram different populations of lung stem cells, which maintain and repair lung ...

Unlike clinicians in Europe, clinicians in North America did not have a guideline on managing bronchiectasis in adults, and ...

Can your lungs recover after years of smoking? Pulmonologist explains what improves after quitting, what damage may be permanent and how to support lung health. Your lungs work around the clock to ...

Up to one in 10 women of reproductive age may have endometriosis, according to recent estimates. Of those, research suggests that between 0.5% and 4.7% will develop endometriosis tissue outside of the ...

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) is the preferred method for many thoracic diseases, featuring advantages of minimal trauma, reduced postoperative pain, and low complication rates. However, it ...

Lillard died at age 78 after a struggle with long COVID and the breakdown of her decades-old iron lung Martha Ann Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient who used an iron lung to survive, has died at age ...

Scientists have identified proteins that could signal increased lung cancer risk, as well as a drug that could reduce the odds of a tumor developing. By Nina Agrawal Scientists have made a discovery ...

Lung cancer may not be the most common cancer diagnosis in the United States—that would be prostate cancer for men and breast cancer for women—but it is by far the leading cause of cancer death in the ...

Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Although small cell lung cancer (SCLC) accounts for a smaller percentage of lung cancer cases, it has remained a ...