NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who start swimming before the age of 2 may be at increased risk of a common infant lung infection, and possibly asthma and respiratory allergies later in life, a ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a serious, incurable lung disease that is common in older people. However, ...

A clinical trial conducted in a neonatal intensive care unit has identified a new treatment protocol to improve lung growth and function among preterm infants. Adding two weeks of continuous positive ...

Researchers at University College London (UCL) Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) have built a new lab model of infant lungs to show why respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) makes infants ...

A UCLA-led research team has discovered a molecular switch that determines whether tiny blood vessels in premature infants' lungs can regenerate after injury. A failure of this repair process is a ...

The use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) during pregnancy may diminish the association between maternal asthma and reduced infant lung function and thus may improve respiratory health in infants born ...

New Delhi, ANI: Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, have successfully performed a rare and technically complex lung surgery on a four-month-old infant born with ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Infant swimming lessons in an indoor pool may have the unintended effect of raising some children's risk of asthma later on, new research findings suggest. Sign up here. In ...

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a dangerous malformation of the lungs and diaphragm that causes almost a third of affected babies to die from underdeveloped lungs. So far, there have been no ...