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CHICAGO (AP) -- Smoking a joint once a week or a bit more apparently doesn't harm the lungs, suggests a 20-year study that bolsters evidence that marijuana doesn't do the kind of damage tobacco does....

(University of Louisville) A University of Louisville scientist has determined for the first time how the bacterium that causes Legionnaires' disease manipulates our cells to generate the amino acids it needs to grow and cause infection and inflammation in the lungs.

The results are published online today (Nov. 17) in Science.

PATRICIA KINGSBURY made three trips from Albany to the city for lung transplants, only to be told the donor's organ was no good when she was dressed for surgery.

New Yorkers with severe asthma have tried it all: inhalers, steroids, nebulizers. Now a Manhattan hospital is offering a rare surgery in which the lungs are "cooked" to weaken the muscles that cause asthma attacks.

SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- Girls' lungs show more patches with poor ventilation than do boys' lungs, even in the absence of clinical symptoms, which researchers here suggested could point to asthma risk.

Inflammatory bowel disease may more than double the risk of a serious blood clot in the legs or lungs, according to a new study.

(MedPage Today) -- A lung-protective ventilation strategy for organ donors after brain death can double the number of lungs viable for transplantation, a randomized trial showed.

Scientists have discovered 'taste receptors' in the lungs - not on the tongue - which could pave the way for new asthma treatments.

(Penn State) The way melanoma cells use the immune system to spread and develop into lung tumors may lead to a therapy to decrease development of these tumors, according to Penn State researchers.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's an early step toward one day building new lungs: Yale University researchers took apart and regrew a rat's lung, and then transplanted it and watched it breathe....