The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) and the Global Lung Function Initiative (GLI) have published a joint statement on the use and interpretation of spirometry for the ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is known for causing breathing difficulties and limiting everyday activities. Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), on the other hand, is usually ...

Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) can be a sudden, life-threatening emergency, and recognising it early can mean the difference between recovery and death. A new joint clinical practice guideline from the ...

There are good, neurological reasons why we all need confidence to counteract anxiety about the uncertainties life throws up. Yet, conversely, anxiety corrodes confidence. This was a conundrum that ...

Type in your ZIP code above or search your county to see vaccination levels and the risk in your area. As measles has spread throughout the United States, with cases recently reaching a 33-year high, ...

Flu cases are continuing to spike in the United States. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that at least 5,000 people have died of the illness this year and that ...

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- UTEP researchers have found unusually high levels in the Borderland of parasitic infection in insects that transmit Chagas disease. Chagas disease is spread by blood-feeding ...

Doctors’ visits for flu-like symptoms — fevers, sore throat, extreme fatigue and body aches — have hit the highest level in nearly 30 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Flu continues to bring misery across the US, with all but four states showing high or very high levels of activity as a new virus strain called subclade K continues to spread. By another measure – ...

Scientists may have pinpointed a way to reverse Alzheimer’s disease in an animal study. The study, led by University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, found that restoring a central cellular energy ...