Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Health & Medicine

What are the long-term health risks of having your tonsils out?

For the first time, researchers have examined the long-term effects of removing tonsils and adenoids in childhood, finding the operations are associated with increased respiratory, infectious and allergic diseases

Health & Medicine

Putting the brakes on lung disease

Researchers have uncovered a molecular pathway that can be blocked to potentially prevent the destructive inflammation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a major worldwide killer