From breathless to breathing freely. NASA engineer and mother Jodi Graf is grateful to celebrate another Mother’s Day after ...

Catching a "breath of fresh air" has new meaning for a North Texas woman. For more than 20 years, 62-year-old Joyce Stovall of Mansfield stayed attached to an oxygen tank. She was diagnosed in her 30s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For most patients, the diagnosis and surgical treatment of an early-stage cancerous lung tumor is a drawn-out process. “At about ...

It was just a small spot deep inside the right lung, but over a few years it began to change. As it grew larger than a quarter and began to take on a fearsome appearance, the patient’s doctors worried ...

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is a minimally invasive surgical technique doctors use to diagnose and treat various chest conditions. It involves inserting a camera and instruments ...

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) — Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in America, and catching it early is vital. That’s exactly what a low-dose CT scan does, but only one-in-10 people at ...

The Zephyr valve is a device that can improve breathing in people with emphysema, one of the two most common types of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The valve received approval by the ...