Lung Disease News

February 19, 2025

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A Treatment-Resistant, Severe Type of Asthma Successfully Modeled in Mice

Feb. 18, 2025 — Researchers are tackling neutrophilic asthma, successfully developing one of the first mouse models of the ...

Brake Pad Emissions Can Be More Toxic Than Diesel Exhaust

Feb. 14, 2025 — A study has found microscopic particles emitted from certain types of commonly fitted brake pads can be more toxic than those found in diesel vehicle ...

Research Pinpoints Weakness in Lung Cancer's Defenses

Feb. 10, 2025 — Scientists uncover an enzyme that boosts cancer cell metabolism to fuel growth. The enzyme, GUK1, supports metabolism in cancer cells to help tumors ...

Exposure to Air Pollution Associated With More Hospital Admissions for Lower Respiratory Infections

Feb. 3, 2025 — Long-term exposure to PM2.5, PM10, NO2 and ozone (O3) air pollution is associated with more hospital admissions for lower respiratory tract infections in ...

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Cystic Fibrosis Damages the Immune System Early on

Feb. 6, 2025 — Despite new medication, cystic fibrosis often leads to permanent lung damage. Researchers have discovered that the disease causes changes in the immune system early in life, presumably even in ...

New Screening Device Shows Promise for Early Lung Cancer Detection

Feb. 6, 2025 — Scientists have created a new low-cost, fast response sensor to detect lung cancer biomarkers, paving the way for the development of screening devices to spot the disease even before symptoms occur. ...

Tumor DNA in the Blood Can Predict Lung Cancer Outcome

Jan. 13, 2025 — Scientists have found that a test to detect circulating tumor DNA can predict lung cancer ...

Lung Cancer Test Predicts Survival in Early Stages Better Than Current Methods

Jan. 9, 2025 — Researchers have shown that a test called ORACLE can predict lung cancer survival at the point of diagnosis better than currently used clinical risk ...

A New Turning Point in Lung Cancer Treatment, Inspired by Mussels

Jan. 9, 2025 — Scientists have developed inhalable lung cancer therapeutics utilizing mucoadhesive proteinic ...

Milestone in the Field of Lung Transplantation: Improvement in Rejection and Infection Rate Thanks to Extracorporeal Photopheresis

Jan. 9, 2025 — Researchers have published a prospective, randomized and controlled study on the use of extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) in lung transplantation. ...

New Scan Method Unveils Lung Function Secrets

Dec. 25, 2024 — A new method of scanning lungs is able to show in real time how air moves in and out of the lungs as people take a breath in patients with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and ...

How a New Gut Microbe Drives the Gut-Lung Axis

Dec. 19, 2024 — A team has discovered a new communication pathway between the gut and lung. Their findings highlight how a little-known member of the gut microbiome reshapes the lung immune environment to have both ...

Scientists Develop Scans That Light-Up Aggressive Cancer Tumors for Better Treatment

Dec. 17, 2024 — Researchers have used a chemical compound to light up treatment-resistant cancers on imaging scans, in a breakthrough that could help medical ...

Microplastics in the Air May Be Leading to Lung and Colon Cancers

Dec. 18, 2024 — Tires and degrading garbage shed tiny pieces of plastic into the air, creating a form of air pollution that researchers suspect may be causing respiratory and other ...

Identifying a Proliferating Repairman for Tissue in Damaged Lungs

Dec. 10, 2024 — Researchers found that endothelial cells lining the veins in lungs contribute to repair of blood vessels after lung ...

Cancer Risk Declines in Old Age, Research Helps Explain Why

Dec. 4, 2024 — A laboratory study provides evidence about how advanced age can be protective against cancer -- with implications for treating patients in different age ...

First New Treatment for Asthma Attacks in 50 Years

Nov. 27, 2024 — A recent trial finds an injection given during some asthma and COPD attacks is more effective than the current treatment of steroid tablets, reducing the need for further treatment by ...

Long COVID Brain Fog Linked to Lung Function

Nov. 27, 2024 — In patients with long COVID, lower pulmonary gas exchange may be associated with impaired cognitive function, according to a new ...

New Study Shows Promising Results for COPD Treatment

Nov. 20, 2024 — A new study shows that a form of vitamin B3 can reduce lung inflammation in COPD patients. The researchers hope it will pave the way for new treatment ...

Zinc Deficiency Promotes Acinetobacter Lung Infection, Study Finds

Nov. 15, 2024 — Researchers discovered an unexpected link between zinc deficiency, the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-13 (IL-13), and Acinetobacter baumannii lung infection and demonstrated that blocking ...

New Study Links Air Pollution With Higher Rates of Head and Neck Cancer

Nov. 12, 2024 — A recent study correlates higher levels of pollutant particulate matter to higher occurrences of head and neck aerodigestive ...

Researchers Uncover New Role of Mutant Proteins in Some of the Deadliest Cancers

Nov. 11, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a new way in which RAS genes, which are commonly mutated in cancer, may drive tumor growth beyond their well-known role in signaling at the cell surface. Mutant RAS, they ...

Researchers Develop Robotic Sensory Cilia That Monitor Internal Biomarkers to Detect and Assess Airway Diseases

Nov. 7, 2024 — Mechanical engineers have developed a system of artificial cilia capable of monitoring mucus conditions in human airways to better detect infection, airway obstruction, or the severity of diseases ...

Detecting Evidence of Lung Cancer in Exhaled Breath

Nov. 6, 2024 — Exhaled breath contains chemical clues to what's going on inside the body, including diseases like lung cancer. And devising ways to sense these compounds could help doctors provide early ...

Researchers Identify Key Mechanism in Human Lung Development

Oct. 31, 2024 — Researchers have shown that the IGFBP3 protein plays a relevant role in human lung development. The results of the study, which used organoids derived from embryonic lungs, open up new perspectives ...

Children's BMI Can Affect Their Future Lung Function

Oct. 28, 2024 — An abnormal BMI in children -- be it high or low -- can now be associated with impaired lung function, but if their BMI is normalized before they reach adulthood, the impairment can be offset, ...

A Lung Pathogen's Dilemma: Infect or Resist Antibiotics?

Oct. 25, 2024 — A new study reveals that the notorious bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa must balance between effectively colonizing human airways and developing antibiotic tolerance to ...

Researchers Identify Signs Tied to More Severe Cases of RSV

Oct. 11, 2024 — Clinician-scientists analyzed samples from patients' airways and blood, finding distinct changes in children with severe cases of RSV, including an increase in the number of natural killer (NK) ...

Scientists Discover That Special Immune Cells Stop Metastatic Cancer

Oct. 7, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a natural immune mechanism in mice that stops escaped cancer cells from developing into tumors elsewhere in the ...

Drug Improves Effectiveness of Radiation for Lung Cancer That Has Spread to the Brain

Oct. 4, 2024 — The University of Cincinnati's Debanjan Bhattacharya is first author of new research published in Cancers that found the drug AM-101 improves the effectiveness and survival rate of radiation ...

Signs of Developing Asthma Are Evident in the First Year of Life

Sep. 26, 2024 — What factors lead to chronic respiratory disease? Researchers investigated this question using health data from about 780 infants. Their analysis shows that children's risk of developing asthma ...

Combination Treatment Improves Response to Immunotherapy for Lung Cancer

Sep. 25, 2024 — Researchers have tested a combination of treatments in mice with lung cancer and shown that these allow immunotherapies to target non-responsive ...

A New Ventilator-on-a-Chip Model to Study Lung Damage

Sep. 19, 2024 — Scientists are now able to directly compare the different kinds of injury that mechanical ventilation causes to cells in the lungs. In a new study, using a ventilator-on-a-chip model, researchers ...

BMI's Relation to Cancer Therapy Mortality Risks Not So Straightforward

Sep. 12, 2024 — Researchers examined the impact of obesity in relation to treatment and mortality from data on over 500,000 lung cancer patients. This study suggests that immunotherapy may not be the optimal ...