The condition of our lungs can reveal a great deal about our wider health. Luckily you can also get them into better shape.

Each year, 500 to 1,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a rare lung ...

The Social Security Administration has tasked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to review the latest published research and science and produce a report addressing best ...

Good breathing is at the heart of good health. When asthma or shortness of breath appears, a person might be sent for pulmonary function tests. Arlene Dunlap of Piscataway, N.J. knows those tests well ...

Examining a patient for common or complex pulmonary issues in a primary care setting takes time and expertise — physicians need to ask about symptoms and medical history and determine which tests to ...

Examining a patient for common or complex pulmonary issues in a primary care setting takes time and expertise — physicians need to ask about symptoms and medical history and determine which tests to ...

Race-neutral pulmonary function testing, now recommended by ATS and implemented at Boston Medical Center, has had a long road ...

Removing race from equations that estimate lung function will shift the categorization of disease severity across patient populations, moving more Black individuals into an advanced disease category, ...

SAN DIEGO – The elimination of race adjustments in lung-function testing could affect millions of people in the U.S. as they lose or gain eligibility for jobs and benefits due to reclassification of ...

Continuing the race adjustment factors maintains health care disparities, the authors noted. The authors wrote that adjusting spirometry values stems from old studies about differences in lung ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a new study, removing “race correction” from the interpretation of pulmonary function test results signaled ...