The disease almost always starts in the spongy, pinkish gray walls of the lungs’ airways (called bronchi or bronchioles) or air sacs (called alveoli). There are more than 20 kinds of lung cancer.

Bronchitis causes inflammation of the bronchi (and bronchioles to a degree) and can affect people of any age. Symptoms common to both bronchiolitis and bronchitis include: With both conditions ...

Pope Francis was described by doctors as being in stable condition Tuesday following additional respiratory difficulties a ...

Amid what is now his third week in the hospital, Pope Francis Monday suffered what doctors described as two incidents of ...

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Clean air then enters the two bronchi, one bronchus going to each lung. The bronchi in the lungs split into smaller and smaller tubes called bronchioles. These end in microscopic air sacs called ...

Prior to being diagnosed with bronchiectasis, many patients reported living with symptoms for multiple years, according to ...

Bronchus The trachea splits into a left and right bronchus (plural: bronchi), each leads to a lung. Bronchiole Each bronchus splits again and again into thousands of smaller tubes called ...