A vitamin found in eggs and milk could hold the key to curing the potentially fatal lung disease emphysema, new research has revealed. British scientists have found that retinoic acid, a ...

As contemporary surgical practice continues to evolve, patients who undergo surgical lung volume reduction (LVRS) for advanced emphysema may survive longer and with fewer complications than they did ...

What are the symptoms of emphysema? - Understanding the condition is the first step towards taking control of your lung health this winter.

(Photo by Prima Barol/Anadolu via Getty Images) Although no cause of death or further details were given, the news comes months after Lynch announced he had been living with emphysema. In an ...

Doctors also call it distal acinar emphysema. It mainly damages the tiny ducts that connect to your lung’s fragile air sacs that help you breathe. Paraseptal emphysema usually affects the upper ...

Emphysema happens when smoke from tobacco or other pollutants slowly damage the tiny air sacs in your lungs called alveoli. Normally, some 300 million alveoli help bring oxygen into your body and ...

David Lynch, writer and director of the Hollywood movies “Dune” and “Blue Velvet” and co-creator of the TV series “Twin Peaks,” has died at age 78, less than six months after ...

You may experience symptoms such as cough, sleepiness, breathlessness, chest condition, and slow walking with emphysema or bronchitis. A spirometry test is one way to distinguish the type of lung ...

Director David Lynch revealed that he needed a supply of oxygen and could only walk short distances after being diagnosed with emphysema months before his death. Emphysema is a chronic lung ...

Although no cause of death or further details were given, the news comes months after Lynch announced he had been living with emphysema. In an August 2024 interview with Sight and Sound magazine, ...