When you think of lung cancer, you probably think of a disease that only afflicts lifelong smokers. This is just one of the ...

Jeffrey Velotta, MD, FACS, attendee and presenter of CHEST Annual Meeting 2023, talks about the phenomenon of an increase in female, Asian, nonsmokers developing lung cancer, and what is being done to ...

According to a study performed at St Gallen Canton Hospital in Switzerland, women are more likely to suffer the consequences of long term smoking, and are more susceptible to developing lung cancer ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A new study found that air pollution can cause lung cancer in people who have never smoked, and can damage the organ in multiple other ways. The new study, published in Nature, ...

Smoking can cause lungs to look blackened, inflated, and inflamed, but some of the damage is reversible. Depending on the extent of the damage, it could take years for your lungs to regain a healthy, ...

Smoking is a harmful habit that affects not only the smoker but also those around them, particularly children. The impact of secondhand smoke on children’s health is profound, with the lungs being one ...

Smoking marijuana in combination with cigarettes may lead to increased damage of the lung's air sacs, according to research being presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of ...

“At birth, our lungs are pink and healthy,” says Dr Chabbra. “However, prolonged exposure to cigarette smoke and air pollutants deposits toxins in the lungs, leading to chronic respiratory diseases ...

A year after she quit smoking, Kim Swart thought the half-million cigarettes she smoked between high school and retirement ...

After a car accident in 2016, Yovanna Portillo, then 34, visited the emergency room as a precaution. Doctors diagnosed her with whiplash from the collision. But one of the scans she underwent detected ...