Worried about lung health amid rising air pollution? A chest surgeon explains a simple breath-holding test you can try at home and shares the medical lung tests doctors recommend to detect early ...

When you breathe out, you’re not just releasing carbon dioxide. Your breath carries a complex mix of volatile organic compounds, or VOCs—tiny molecules that come from normal body processes. These ...

An electronic nose developed in Israel can distinguish between molecules found in the breath of patients with head and neck cancer and those of healthy people, according to initial research published ...

New York University Langone Medical Center will lead a new clinical initiative to determine a breath test’s effectiveness in identifying volatile organic compounds in human breath that are biomarkers ...

While there is no general consensus on this, the Ohio State University estimates the safe limit for holding your breath at 1 ...