Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Clinicians need to remember that a patient’s reported race includes social factors in addition to genetics. In ...

Credit: Getty Images The road to race-neutral pulmonary function testing has been long and evolving; now, ATS recommends this approach and a Boston hospital offers an implementation model. In July, ...

For decades, clinical algorithms that were used to diagnose disease have included race as a variable. Over the past several years, growing recognition that this may lead to diagnoses being entirely ...

A pulmonologist discusses the history and influence of race-based reference equations in pulmonary function testing interpretation and patient care.

Our lungs work tirelessly, providing the oxygen our bodies need to function properly, and also to maintain proper blood flow to our internal as well as external organs. Let's think, how often do we ...