If you often have a difficult time breathing or if you suffer from a dry and persistent cough, you may be suffering from a ...

Pneumonia is a lung infection caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, or tuberculosis. Symptoms include fever, cough, chest pain, and shortness of breath. Early diagnosis and treatment are crucial to ...

Expert Rev of Obstet Gynecol. 2012;7(3):269-279. In summary, excess levels of urobilinogen and bilirubin in the urine may signal liver disease, and more research is needed to correlate these ...

Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business executive. He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in ...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic interstitial lung disease characterized by an abnormal reepithelialisation, an excessive tissue remodelling and a progressive fibrosis within the ...

An elevated serum ACE is supportive but non-specific and there are cases diagnosed as sarcoidosis with no serum abnormality. Given that there is no gold-standard diagnosis test for sarcoidosis, and ...

While each helminth species completes a distinct life cycle within the host, several helminths incite significant lung disease. This impact on the lungs occurs either directly from larval migration ...

The results of non-biomarker blood tests (tests that aren't specifically looking for lung cancer) are usually nonspecific (meaning that the finding could be due to many different medical conditions) ...

Lung biopsy is a relatively frequently performed procedure with considerable benefit for patient management but it may, on rare occasions, result in the death of the patient. It is a multidisciplinary ...

Learn about cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that affects the lungs, pancreas, and other organs, and how to treat and live with this chronic disease. 12 min read What Is Cystic Fibrosis? Cystic ...

Pneumococcal disease (PD) includes both invasive pneumococcal diseases (IPD), such as meningitis, bacteremia, bacteremic pneumonia and empyema, and non-invasive pneumococcal disease, such as community ...