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Atelectasis

Atelectasis is a lung condition that happens when your airways or the tiny sacs at the end of them don’t expand the way they should when you breath...

What is Asbestos?

The fibers that form asbestos separate very easily into tiny pieces when they’re handled or damaged. If you breathe in the fibers over long periods...

Are There Any Safe Destinations to Travel To?

Travel, even across town, is limited with most governments encouraging residents to stay home. For details with respect to travel, we regularly upd...

What is Farmer's Lung?

You may mistake acute or sub-acute farmer's lung for the flu, because many of the symptoms are the same. Chronic farmer's lung symptoms can be cont...

Respiratory Failure

Respiratory failure is a condition in which your lungs have a hard time loading your blood with oxygen or removing carbon dioxide. Your doctor puts...

What is Emphysema?

Emphysema is a form of chronic (long-term) lung disease. Doctors don’t know exactly how smoking destroys air sac linings, but studies show that smo...

What is a Fever?

Despite the new research, doctors don’t consider you to have a fever until your temperature is at or above 100.4 F. A thermometer is the only way t...

Pulmonary Edema

Pulmonary edema is a buildup of fluid in your lungs. It’s easy to get pulmonary edema mixed up with some other lung conditions. Unlike pulmonary ed...

Breathing Problems

Allergies, asthma, inflammation, and infection are just some of the conditions that can cause you to have breathing problems. Smoking causes breath...

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF)

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a serious lung disease. But doctors don't know what causes IPF. IPF is hard to tell apart from other lung di...

What is Cystic Lung Disease?

If your doctor tells you that you have cystic lung disease, it means you have one of a group of conditions that cause lung cysts -- sacs of tissue ...

What is a Pulmonary Embolism?

Your blood goes from your heart to your lungs through your pulmonary artery. These clots develop when the blood can’t flow freely through the legs ...