Doctors writing in the journal Thorax have warned musicians who play wind instruments of a potential hazard they have dubbed 'bagpipe lung.' The warning comes after a man died of the chronic ...

Wythenshawe, England – Musicians, take note: Cleaning wind instruments immediately after use and allowing them to dry may lower the risk of developing a respiratory condition doctors have nicknamed ...

The Great Highland bagpipe is as central to Scottish identity as tartan and Robert Burns. Walk down Edinburgh’s Royal Mile and you'll hear that familiar wail, while pipers gather each year to empty ...

Doctors have an important message for musicians: Don’t forget to clean your instruments. It could be a matter of life and death. Their warning was inspired by a 61-year-old British bagpipe player who ...

It seems that the laments of those who feel the sounds of bagpipes are akin to suffering an extremely long, slow, and painful death may be truer than they imagined: the traditional instrument could be ...

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis is a disease of the lungs in which your lungs become inflamed as an allergic reaction to inhaled dust, fungus, molds or chemicals. If you’re a musician who plays a wind ...

Bagpipes have been described as the Marmite of musical instruments: you love them, or you hate them. And yet the love for them must indeed outweigh the hate, if they still survive – and thrive – ...

According to a new study, people who play any kind of a wind instrument such as saxophone or bagpipe, tend to be more prone to a deadly inflammatory lung disease, popularly called ‘bagpipe lung’.

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