Examining a patient for common or complex pulmonary issues in a primary care setting takes time and expertise — physicians need to ask about symptoms and medical history and determine which tests to ...

Infants born preterm remain vulnerable to numerous health complications, such as respiratory distress syndrome, chronic lung disease, and pulmonary dysfunction. Moreover, extremely low gestational age ...

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 ...

Body plethysmography is testing that's done to determine how much air your lungs can hold. It goes by other names, too, such as pulmonary plethysmography, static lung volume determination, or ...

The Social Security Administration has requested the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to review the latest published research and science and produce a report addressing best ...

AI-powered platform Swaasa is using cough sound analysis through smartphones to help screen respiratory diseases such as COPD ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The effect of balloon pulmonary angioplasty on respiratory function in patients with chronic thromboembolic ...

Last July, a team of physicians and researchers successfully proposed modifications to the American Medical Association (AMA) Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, advocating against the ...