IQAir’s 2023 World Air Quality Report recorded Dhaka’s mean annual PM2.5 concentration at 80.2 micrograms per cubic metre, which is more than sixteen times the WHO’s recommended guideline of 5 μg/m³.

A pulmonologist discusses the history and influence of race-based reference equations in pulmonary function testing interpretation and patient care.

Across the city in Dakshinkhan, a woman in her mid-forties stands over a makeshift gas stove, boiling water for a cup of tea. She does so, punctuating the task with a heavy cough, which she explains ...

Arcturus Therapeutics (NASDAQ:ARCT) executives highlighted progress across the company’s cystic fibrosis and ornithine ...

Sometimes the story can be told in statistics. India accounts for 13% of the global population, yet it accounts for 42% of global asthma mortality. Around 35 million Indians are thought to be living ...

Malaysia has a new national plan to tackle cancer, tuberculosis, and chronic respiratory conditions in a single approach. Jacqui Thornton reports.

The Social Security Administration has requested the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to review the latest published research and science and produce a report addressing best ...

Background Children are largely exposed to air pollution in low- and middle-income countries, yet data on exposure and respiratory effects of air pollution remain limited. This study aimed to assess ...

Justice for Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson: A team of scientists has observed, for the first time, a cow using a tool in a flexible manner. The ingenuity of “Veronika,” as the animal is called, shows ...

In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, cow tools are real. Larson’s 1982 comic for his series The Far Side showed ...

How does a cow scratch an itch on its back? An Austrian cow named Veronika has a solution that could change how we view livestock. For the past decade, Veronika has been observed by her owner ...