Sam Kirton started his column in November 2021 and writes from his home at Lake Anna, Virginia, where he lives with his wife Susan. His diagnosis at age 59 with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in ...

Columnist Ann Reynoso was worried before a recent bronchoscopy, but her medical team's excellent bedside manner put her mind at ease.

As of April 11, almost 105,000 people are awaiting an organ transplant in the U.S., according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. Of those, 993 are waiting for a lung transplant. In the past year ...

The abnormal accumulation of immune plasma cells in the lungs — and their subsequent generation of damaging antibodies — may be a key driver of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), according to new ...

Basal stem cells taken from the upper part of a patient’s respiratory tract can be expanded in the lab and then transplanted back into their lungs to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), ...

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One of the lessons idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) has taught me is that not everything will go as planned. For that reason, this past weekend we celebrated Halloween and One-Half (which we call ...