Children who are breast-fed for at least 4 months may have better lung function than children who are breast-fed for shorter periods of time and children who are bottle fed, a new study suggests.

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Differences in lung physiology and immune function in children could be why they are more often spared from severe illness associated with COVID-19 than adults. Differences in lung physiology and ...

(Reuters Health) - Doctors have long predicted that less air pollution will produce healthier lungs. Now a first-of-its-kind study of 2,120 children in southern California has documented dramatically ...

Spinraza (nusinersen) may help stabilize lung function in people with SMA types 2 and 3, delaying the need for breathing ...

Air pollution may hurt kids' lungs Allergy season is known to aggravate kids' asthma attacks, but other types of fine particle pollution in the air throughout the year also measurably affect ...

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - "Healthy" children of smokers may not show any signs of breathing difficulties, but they may still be experiencing reduced lung function -- which could progressively worsen ...

Matt Zinter receives funding from the National Institutes of Health (K23HL146936, K12HD000850), the American Thoracic Society, the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Consortium, and the National ...

Worrying lung abnormalities have been detected in youngsters with long COVID. An advanced type of MRI scan uncovered "significant" problems - including reduced blood flow - in the lungs of children ...

Differences in lung physiology and immune function in children could be why they are more often spared from severe illness associated with COVID-19 than adults, according to pediatric and adult ...