Chest congestion is the result of inflamed air passages, or bronchi, in the lungs. A chest cold results from the same virus as the common cold and usually presents as a runny nose, sinus infection ...

Bronchitis causes inflammation of the bronchi (and bronchioles to a degree) and can affect people of any age. Symptoms common to both bronchiolitis and bronchitis include: With both conditions ...

It travels down the trachea – or windpipe – into one of two bronchi and into bronchioles before entering one of millions of alveoli, where gaseous exchange takes place. When we breathe out ...

Chiara Bronchi is the Practice Manager for the Public Institutions Data and Analytics Unit in the Governance Global Practice of the World Bank Group. She leads a group of public sector economists and ...

Bronchiectasis is a chronic lung disease where the bronchi become widened permanently due to infection, inflammation, and lung tissue damage. Brensocatib is a novel, small molecule, reversible ...

The bronchi branch out into smaller tubes called bronchioles. At the ends of the bronchioles are little air sacs called alveoli. At the end of the alveoli are capillaries, which are tiny blood ...