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 ...

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

Most patients with persistent pulmonary symptoms after recovering from mild to moderate COVID-19 infection have normal ...

Researchers from Mexico recommend conducting a pulmonary function test in patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) undergoing concurrent chemoradiotherapy to assess their susceptibility to ...

HealthDay News — Using the Wells rule for pulmonary embolism in combination with either a qualitative point-of-care D-dimer test or a quantitative D-dimer test helps practitioners safety exclude ...

Pulmonary function testing serves 2 important clinical goals: (1) categorizing the physiologic impairment from lung disease (ie, obstructive, restrictive, etc) and (2) quantifying the degree of ...

This approach offers an excellent negative predictive value.1 However, its specificity is poor and there is an increasing ...

Discover groundbreaking research on pulmonary fibrosis and a potential new treatment target that could revolutionize lung ...

A screening blood test originally validated in seriously ill patients without COVID-19 is still clinically useful for ruling out pulmonary embolism in patients hospitalized with the coronavirus, a ...

Pulmonary fibrosis is a deadly disease in which the lungs become thickened and scarred, gradually losing their ability to ...