Around 1.5 million patients succumb to the disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). The novel ...

Every year, 10 million people contract tuberculosis (TB), a disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and approximately 1.5 million patients succumb to the disease. Treatment ...

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 ...

Lung cancer screening aims to find lung cancer early. This is when there are more treatment options available and there is the best chance of treating it successfully. In the UK, the National ...

Lung neuroendocrine cancers are lung cancers that develop in the neuroendocrine cells of the lung. Your healthcare team might also call them lung neuroendocrine neoplasms (lung NENs). But this means ...

The gold standard for finding lung cancer early is computed tomography (CT) lung cancer screening. However, this is limited to people who have smoked. Currently, there are more non-smokers (never ...

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Chemotherapy for lung cancer is used for different purposes depending on the type and stage of cancer you have. This includes achieving cancer remission, shrinking a tumor before surgery, killing ...

The consequences are huge but the global burden of pulmonary disease as a result of helminths remains unknown. Lung pathology induced by helminths occurs in three general categories: 1) diffuse lung ...

They’re separate conditions that can damage your lungs in opposite ways and for different reasons. But symptoms of COPD and pulmonary fibrosis can be so alike that it can be tricky for doctors ...

This new lung disease AI model gives us a clue as to what is yet to come, with it able to correctly identify nuances that differentiate, for example COVID-19 from pneumonia.

and approval of the Royal College of Pathologists in respect of the pathology recommendations and the Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. Lung biopsy is a relatively ...