Respiratory Diseases
Respiratory diseases encompass pathological conditions affecting the organs and tissues that make gas exchange possible in higher organisms, and includes conditions of the upper respiratory tract, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli, pleura and pleural cavity, and the nerves and muscles of breathing. Respiratory diseases range from mild and self-limiting, such as the common cold, to life-threatening entities like bacterial pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, and lung cancer.
Respiratory Diseases Stories
UC engineering students have developed a prize-winning device that reduces harmful emissions from small engines.
The second patient to contract the new SARS-like virus spent two days in a shared hospital room with the only other sufferer of the deadly disease.
At a conference devoted to medical diagnoses famous historical figures, a researcher speculates a clumsy rescue operation may have caused pneumonia in the Confederate general.
While four more deaths are reported in China, no signs of the virus have been detected in people or poultry outside of the country so far.
In an effort to curb tobacco use, researchers have developed smoke-detecting underwear to better study the mysterious and elusive cigarette smoker.
Both sides of the bloody conflict in Syria have been accused of detonating chemical weapons. Weapons experts discuss the forensic measures that the United Nations must take to prove the case.
Many Taiwanese fail to visit the doctor, even when they've been diagnosed with asthma, the government says.
A new study found that vitamin C could help pregnant smokers lower the chances of wheezing in their newborn babies.
A federal official has ordered the state of California to stop housing inmates at two prisons where dozens have died of a fungal infection.
A new analysis claims over a third of all stroke victims in the U.S. avoided calling emergency services.
Researchers found that certain middle and high school programs teaching self-esteem and life skills reduced tobacco smoking later in life.
Anti-Apartheid leader Nelson Mandela made his first televised appearance after being hospitalized just last month for a lung infection.