Emerging research revealed how inhaled microplastics may harm respiratory health, with evidence of inflammation, lung lesions ...

A breakthrough in understanding how a single-cell parasite makes ergosterol (its version of cholesterol) could lead to more effective drugs for human leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that afflicts ...

Parasitic infection describes the infection of a host with a particular parasite. Parasites are microorganisms that rely on other host organisms for their own survival. Many parasites do not cause ...

New World screwworm was largely eradicated from the U.S. and Central America in the 1960s and 1980s, respectively. But the ...

Patients living with emphysema experience shortness of breath because areas within the lungs are diseased and are holding trapped air (hyperinflation of the lung). This makes it difficult to inhale ...

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, Whereas ...

Lungworm is a generic term for a parasite that infects the lungs. I’ve thankfully never diagnosed a case of cat lungworms ...

A terrifying parasite that hasn’t beached North America ... periphery of fresh wounds in warm-blooded animals — as well as humans — depositing hundreds of eggs that hatch into flesh-eating ...

Lung cancer survival rates can be as high as 98% for certain cancers diagnosed in an early stage, and as low as 4% for those diagnosed with more aggressive cancers in advanced stages. Survival rates ...

Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, USA Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, USA ...

“The emergence of a bovine H5N1 virus capable of recognizing human receptors may be closer than previously thought,” Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies ...

Stanford Medicine/Youtube Stanford University School of Medicine clinical professor and researcher Dr. Bryant Lin has been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer despite never smoking in his life.