SAN DIEGO – The elimination of race adjustments in lung-function testing could affect millions of people in the U.S. as they lose or gain eligibility for jobs and benefits due to reclassification of ...

This combined model achieved a high level of accuracy, suggesting that imaging data alongside basic clinical information could be effective for screening.

Widely used lung function tests often fail to detect lung disease in Black patients, according to research — and experts are calling for new methods of testing. Spirometry, the most common lung ...

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, ...

Nurses across primary and community care settings have been urged to consider how to make spirometry more accurate and less ...

Veterans Affairs department officials said Monday they have launched a study to determine how removing race from widely used lung function tests may affect disability benefits for veterans, and they ...

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 ...

We often hear about LFT (Liver Function Test) for the liver and KFT (Kidney Function Test) for the kidneys. Similarly, there’s a lesser-known but equally important test called the PFT (Pulmonary ...