A very important part of your body is an organ called the lungs. Take a deep breath in and you can feel your lungs expand in your chest. Lungs help us to breathe in oxygen, then they move it into our ...

When thinking about lung cancer, children might not immediately come to mind. Most people diagnosed with lung cancer are older. According to the American Cancer Society, a person’s average age at the ...

A video posted on TikTok of a smoker's lungs set next to a pair of normal, healthy lungs is horrifying some addicts so much that they committed on the spot to quitting. With advertisements, warnings ...

Children who are breast-fed for at least 4 months may have better lung function than children who are breast-fed for shorter periods of time and children who are bottle fed, a new study suggests.

Traffic pollution can prevent the lungs of children who live near busy roads from developing properly, making them more likely to suffer respiratory and heart problems later in life, U.S. researchers ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Allergy season is known to aggravate kids' asthma attacks, but other types of fine particle pollution in the air throughout the year also measurably affect children's lung ...

For those of us who took the school bus as children, the smell of diesel exhaust is almost a core memory; I remember how it would linger in my nose and lungs as I rode to school, and the sight of the ...