Pneumonia is a very general term for inflammation of the alveoli that results in the accumulation of fluid and other gunk. Alveoli, which rhymes with “bow tie,” are the very little balloon ...

Louis Gossett Jr. fought a years-long battle with the disease but died on March 29, according to a family member.

It happens when an infection causes air sacs in your lungs (the alveoli) and tubes in your airways that connect to them (bronchioles) to fill with fluid or pus. That can make it hard for you to ...

The U.S. accused Russia of using chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops. The U.S. State Department also assessed that ...

The discovery of traces of the bird flu virus in pasteurized cow milk in the United States sparked questions over whether the ...

Researchers developed NZ-97, an inhalable drug that stimulates the growth of stem cells in the lungs, potentially repairing ...

Macrophages are single cells that do not have noses. Instead, the study found that macrophages in the alveoli (which are little air sacs in the lungs) of a mouse were less responsive to ...

Pneumonia causes the lungs to become inflamed and the alveoli inside the lungs to fill up with fluid. A person with pneumonia may cough up yellow or green phlegm. The color of phlegm can tell a ...

The second critical variable was the extent to which the climbers increased their ventilation, because this process maintains the oxygen level in the alveoli in the depths of the lung at a viable ...

Infants and children who have severe cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) before age 2 are likely to have changes to ...

The dough was also stretched with corn flour for added crunch and dimension. "You have an interior part of the pizza that's ...

A study in the CDC's Emerging Infectious Disease Journal reports the spread of H5N1 avian influenza among cats and dairy ...