Novel, experimental treatment for emphysema may offer promising results for patients looking to breathe easier ...

Doctors sometimes recommend lung coils to help someone manage severe emphysema, especially when other treatments have been unsuccessful. Their benefits include increased lung volume, exercise capacity ...

The bad news about vaping continues to roll in with a new study from the University of North Carolina Health Care, where researchers identified changes in the lungs of vapers that mirror those seen in ...

A CT scan of healthy lungs looks typical in size with no inflammation, allowing the diaphragm to dome. Lungs with emphysema can look overinflated, with muscle loss, making the diaphragm misshapen. The ...

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian in New York have discovered that injecting mice with healthy pulmonary endothelial cells (ECs)—the cells that line the walls of blood ...

Director David Lynch is sharing his emphysema diagnosis with fans. (Photo by CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images) “I’m homebound whether I like it or not,” he said. Lynch, who has not directed a feature ...

A new study funded by the NIH says that increasing rates of the chronic lung condition called emphysema are linked to breathing polluted air over a long period. The progression of emphysema, a ...