NI farmers are being urged not to ignore even the slightest of symptoms of lung disease as part of a new joint campaign by the NI Agri-Rural Health Forum and Farm Safety Partnership to promote ...

Each year, more than 300 people in Northern Ireland die from work-related illnesses, according to HSENI. The organisation is using the Balmoral Show to spread the crucial message of lung health and ...

Farmer's lung is a disease caused by an allergy to the mold in certain crops. Farmers are most likely to get it because it's usually caused by breathing in dust from hay, corn, grass for animal ...

Lijo Illipparambil, a pulmonary critical care expert at Temple Health. "Like Farmer's lung. There's also Bird Fanciers' lung," says Dr. Illipparambil. "There used to be a Wine Growers lung." ...

A team of Indian researchers has uncovered a genetic cause for the early relapse of a certain type of lung cancer in some patients, a discovery that can change the way the disease is treated. Lung ...

Other causes. It could be that a virus or bacteria has infected your lungs. This is different from an allergic reaction. Your doctor will usually call that pneumonia. If you don’t treat ...

Farmers and farm workers are being encouraged to 'act quickly' on signs of the lung disease COPD due to respiratory exposures encountered on the farm. Studies on lung diseases in agriculture have ...

New York University (NYU) Langone Health achieved a medical milestone by performing the world’s first fully robotic double lung transplant. A 57-year-old woman with chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Studies on lung diseases in agriculture have shown evidence that farmers are at an increased risk of developing COPD due to respiratory ...

In one patient, who was severely ill, a lung biopsy was obtained which showed a pattern of alveolitis and interstitial fibrosis. The serum of both patients gave a precipitin reaction to an extraction ...

A chronic lung disease is a type of disease that prevents the lungs and respiratory system from working correctly. The main job of the respiratory system is to take in oxygen from the air we breathe ...

AN interesting suggestion has been made by Jackson and Yow elsewhere in this issue of the Journal that farmer's lung "resembles Loeffler's syndrome, for, at times, it manifests the triad of ...