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Health officials are calling for restrictions on flavored e-cigarettes to combat the outbreak of lung disease that has made hundreds of people sick and has lead to at least six deaths, according to Alex Azar, US Health and Human Services Secretary. Currently the US FDA is finalizing guidance to remove all non-tobacco flavors of e-cigarettes …
Innovative new biotechnology could reduce cost and time of developing medicines to treat lung disease such as pulmonary fibrosis, as published in the journal Nature Communications.  It is difficult to develop new medicines to treat pulmonary fibrosis due to it being difficult to mimic how the disease damages and scars lung tissue over time, …
People who are exposed to mold in their homes could be at an increased risk for sarcoidosis, a chronic inflammatory lung disease. Characterized by the development and growth of tiny clumps of inflammatory cells in different areas of your body — most commonly the lungs, lymph nodes, eyes and skin, sarcoidosis is thought to result …