On days when the emphysema and the side effects of his traumatic brain injury are not flaring out of control, David Cochran ...

Some of San Diego County’s roughly 200,000 veterans worry about what the Trump administration’s cuts to the Department of ...

Beam Therapeutics reported promising Phase 1/2 data for BEAM-302, demonstrating durable gene correction for AATD. See why I ...

Early research shows a one-time gene therapy has potential for addressing both the liver and lung disease that patients with ...

For current and former smokers, statins may reduce the amount of chest muscle loss, while aspirin may contribute to increased ...

But what many people don’t realize is that the same low-dose CT scans used to screen for lung cancer can also uncover another life-threatening condition: Emphysema, a form of chronic obstructive ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is among the most common breathing conditions. It's the result of damaged lung tissue.

When it first develops, emphysema, one of a group of lung diseases known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), is usually asymptomatic. As the illness progresses, however, it causes ...

The inflamed alveoli fill with pus, which makes it hard to breathe. Emphysema is a chronic, or long-term lung disease. It usually develops in people with a long history of smoking. People with ...