Charles Burger, MD: Pulmonary hypertension really refers to a state where the right heart is generating high pressures to circulate the blood through the lung. Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a ...

Current therapies for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) alleviate symptoms, but do not deal with disease progression. Respiratory mucus is primarily made up of mucins, of which mucin 5AC ...

Erdosteine is a multimechanism, mucolytic agent that decreases the sputum viscoelastic properties and bacterial adhesion to the cell membrane, endowed with bronchial anti-inflammatory activity and a ...

"Taken together the interplay of sex-specific gene regulation and its impact on ECM-related genes, influenced by factors such as genetics, epigenetics, environmental exposures, steroid hormones, aging ...

Moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may be an auto-immunity problem, according to researchers in Spain, who studied the presence of auto-antibodies in patients with COPD ...

Few threats to public health are as perilous as cigarette smoking, with more than 435,000 Americans dying each year of tobacco-related pulmonary illnesses such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

—Investigators from the U.S. and U.K have identified neutrophil elastase (NE) and its inhibitor elafin as possible biomarkers in the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). “An ...

The Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Section has strong nationally recognized research programs in lung diseases and critical care medicine. The faculty performs a broad spectrum of ...

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian in New York have discovered that injecting mice with healthy pulmonary endothelial cells (ECs)—the cells that line the walls of blood ...