Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Extra mucus in your throat and chest is a common ...

Sarah Klein is a health writer, editor, and certified personal trainer with over a decade of experience in media. She has held editorial positions at LIVESTRONG.com, Health, Prevention, and The ...

Pneumonia is one condition that’s commonly mistaken for bronchitis, as it can be particularly tricky to tell the difference between the two. Both bronchitis and pneumonia are conditions that involve ...

Coughing up blood from your respiratory tract, called hemoptysis, can happen at any stage of lung cancer. The amount of bleeding does not predict cancer stage or life expectancy. Lung cancer outlook ...