Chest physiotherapy is a common treatment for cystic fibrosis that involves breathing exercises and specialized devices. Often, people with cystic fibrosis are taught how to do chest physiotherapy on ...

Pulmonary fibrosis—also known in technical terms as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)—is a rare but life-threatening ...

Pulmonary fibrosis is a rare, chronic disease that causes scarring in the lungs, making breathing difficult for people who suffer with it. And, as University of South Florida pulmonologist Dr. Jose ...

An online atlas of lung cells affected by idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) may help researchers find ways to create new therapies to treat this rare disease, one affecting about 100,000 Americans.

The Program for Pulmonary Fibrosis and Interstitial Lung Disease's mission is to provide state of the art evaluation and treatment for patients with interstitial lung diseases (ILD). The University of ...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is characterized by abnormal stem cells (green) present near the scar-forming fibroblasts (red). Image by Monica Cassandras In response to certain types of injury and ...

These estimates are based on our experience and are likely to be heavily influenced by regional variation in referral patterns and the true underlying prevalence of each disease (which is unknown).