Pulmonary function tests are a group of noninvasive breathing tests that measure how much air your lungs can hold, how quickly you can move air in and out and how efficiently your lungs transfer ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- For people with emphysema, breathing in is hard because the lungs can't expand properly. In this week's Moves in Medicine, we learn about a procedure letting some emphysema ...

The European Respiratory Society (ERS) and American Thoracic Society (ATS) just updated their standards for interpreting lung function testing. The last joint society update from these organizations ...

The first randomized controlled trial to compare two different lung volume reduction procedures for people with emphysema has found that both lead to similar improvements in lung function, ...

Young adults who vape regularly have significant cardiopulmonary abnormalities during exercise and impaired pulmonary vascular responsiveness.

Expiratory reserve volume is the amount of extra air above normal that you exhale during a forceful breath out. ERV is part of the data gathered in pulmonary function tests used to diagnose ...

Doctors sometimes recommend lung coils to help someone manage severe emphysema, especially when other treatments have been unsuccessful. Their benefits include increased lung volume, exercise capacity ...

“I can’t breathe” became a rallying cry against racism in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd and Eric Garner at the hands of the police. But chokeholds are far from the main cause of race-based ...