Lung cancer survival rates are improving for everyone: American Lung Association

Nov 15, 2023, at 10:47 pm

Lung cancer survival rates are improving for everyone, including people of colour, according to the American Lung Association’s 2023 “State of Lung Cancer” report, released today.

Punctured lung affects almost one in a hundred hospitalised Coronavirus patients

Sep 13, 2020, at 11:03 pm

New York: As many as one in 100 patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 develop a pneumothorax – a ‘punctured lung’ – according to a study led by Cambridge researchers.

Pulmonary TB can be cured with shorter treatment, study finds

Nov 11, 2018, at 07:30 pm

New York , Nov 11 (IBNS): Almost half of the nearly 10 million patients with active tuberculosis each year could potentially be cured with significantly shorter treatments than current guidelines recommend, a new analysis from UC San Francisco has found. The results suggest targeted therapies could be more effective in treating TB, which killed an estimated 1.3 million people around the world last year. 

US nurse displays on FB how healthy lungs differ from cigarette smoke-damaged ones

May 05, 2018, at 01:20 am

Washington, May 4 (IBNS): With large number of people still addicted to smoking, a US nurse decided to take a special step to show people the condition of their lungs.