Dietary zinc deficiency promotes lung infection by Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria — a leading cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia, according to a new study published Nov. 15 in the journal ...

Cigarette smoking is widespread and deadly, yet our understanding of how cigarette smoke actually causes serious respiratory ...

you may be prone to recurring lung infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Once you get infected, it can be hard to get rid of this bacteria completely. P. aeruginosa is also linked to a decline ...

Antibiotic treatment during an influenza infection actually impaired the body’s efforts to clear bacteria rather than helping the body heal.

Bacterial communities build ... or when it occurs in the lungs of a person with cystic fibrosis, among many other situations, these infections can be life-shortening.” Part of their deadly ...

The dire circumstances facing cystic fibrosis patients in Cuba have come to light through a heartfelt letter sent to our news ...

Marsa Alam, in Egypt, where a child 9 year old Friulian, Mattia Cossettini, is dead after feeling unwell while on vacation ...

Pioneering research led by New Zealand and US scientists suggests that’s not such a far-fetched idea – and it could pave the ...

The postmortem report of elephant Sonia, who died last month at Safari Park, has revealed that respiratory-related disease that damaged her tissues in the lungs and developed sepsis caused her death.

Kolkata: The city continues to reel under a spate of respiratory viral and bacterial infections with the mercury on a yo-yo ...