The condition of our lungs can reveal a great deal about our wider health. Luckily you can also get them into better shape.

In an ideal world, every primary care setting features lung function tests and multiple imaging capabilities on site, and cost and insurance reimbursement are not limitations.

Race-neutral pulmonary function testing, now recommended by ATS and implemented at Boston Medical Center, has had a long road ...

Lung function testing usually happens only at specialized centers, and often only one to two times a year; most of these tests require either expensive equipment or difficult forceful maneuvers ...

WASHINGTON — By using race specific equations when interpreting pulmonary function tests, racism and bias come to the surface, according to a presentation at the American Thoracic Society ...

Clinicians should stop using the race adjustment factor in pulmonary function testing (PFT), according to a recent entry in the Things We Do for No Reason series in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

The use of newly developed race-neutral reference equations for pulmonary function test (PFT) interpretation led to a significant increase in both the prevalence and severity of respiratory ...

You can test yourself at home to get a better understanding of your COPD symptoms, but a doctor is needed for a diagnosis and treatment.

An experimental blood test could one day help identify people most likely to develop severe lung problems like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).