Health officials warn of a preventable but potentially fatal lung disease linked to quartz countertops. Massachusetts reported its first silicosis case involved a stone worker.

A popular material for kitchen countertops has been linked to a life-threatening lung disease, silicosis. Health officials in ...

A US teenager was recently reported to have developed the oddly named medical condition “popcorn lung” after vaping in secret for three years. Officially known as bronchiolitis obliterans, popcorn ...

Just two months after reviving its prowess in the idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) treatment area with rare lung disease ...

Health officials confirmed Massachusetts’ first case of silicosis, an incurable and life-threatening lung disease, warning that this suggests that additional, unconfirmed cases could exist. The ...

A man in Massachusetts has been diagnosed with a rare lung disease that has been linked to a specific type of countertops.

A severe cough, wheezing and shortness of breath are the main symptoms that would likely prompt a visit to your doctor’s office to rule out lung conditions. But there are some less obvious symptoms ...

Mass. DPH issues safety alert after the state's first confirmed silicosis case linked to countertop work, urging stronger dust controls, surveillance and worker protections.

DOCTOR, WHEN YOU GET SICK, WOMEN ARE MORE LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE CERTAIN LUNG RELATED SYMPTOMS THAN MEN. JOINING US THIS MORNING WITH MORE IS MERCY MEDICAL CENTER PULMONOLOGIST DOCTOR ANTHONY ROWE.

Heart attacks, lung problems and other illnesses spiked within three months of the Los Angeles wildfires early this year, ...

She was diagnosed with chronic lung disease in 2018.