Humans can’t survive without taking a breath. And the lungs are the pneumatic engines that take in oxygen to be distributed ...

Despite a relatively slow start to respiratory disease season, low vaccination rates threaten that trend and the rapid rise of some illnesses is already putting children at increased risk. Overall, ...

A multidisciplinary team has uncovered a key mechanism that allows the human bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae—responsible for ...

Researchers have found a potential link between vitamin D deficiency and a higher rate of hospitalization for respiratory ...

A 3D reconstruction of a mouse lung four days after infection with fluorescent Sendai virus reveals widespread virus presence (red) and active replication (green). A study by researchers at WashU ...

Asia contains more than half the world's population and almost half of all people living with chronic respiratory disease,1–3 yet until now there has been no coherent, country-level assessment of how ...

Until recently, COVID-19 seemed to be a harmless pathogen of minor outbreaks of unremarkable and mild acute respiratory (or intestinal) diseases. At the same time, many similar microorganisms lived in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Diseases of the heart topped the 2022 list, and chronic lower respiratory diseases occupied the sixth spot. In ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . People residing in the East Coast are currently experiencing poor air quality due to smoke and haze from ...

Many people across cultures grow up hearing that cold weather makes you sick. Going outside without a coat, breathing in cold ...