Hundreds of people in New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania are sickened with TB every year, but a recent deadly outbreak in ...

The Kansas City metro area is experiencing the largest outbreak in U.S. history, with low risk to the general public, Kansas ...

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 ...

Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have discovered that bacterial cells growing in a solution of polymers, such ...

Cigarette smoking is widespread and deadly, yet our understanding of how cigarette smoke actually causes serious respiratory illnesses is incomplete, which has severely hampered the development of ...

The finding could be particularly important to the study and treatment of diseases such as cystic fibrosis, in which the mucus that lines the lungs becomes more concentrated, often causing bacterial ...

in which the mucus that lines the lungs becomes more concentrated, often causing bacterial infections that take hold in that mucus to become life threatening. This discovery could also have ...

For the first time Australian researchers have identified how exposure to smoking may cause a deadly lung disease that claims ...

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.