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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bellowing an impassioned sound, the bagpipes often evoke an emotional response from listeners, which is why this instrument has historically been played at both celebrations as well as solemn ...

Players of wind instruments need to clean them regularly, doctors explaining a bagpipe player’s death warn. An article published Monday in the British Medical Journal, described a 61-year-old British ...

A case report published Monday in the journal Thorax shares the story of the man, who developed a dry cough that became progressively worse over seven years. He once was able to finish 10K races, but ...

Doctors have warned musicians who play wind instruments of a potential hazard they have dubbed 'bagpipe lung.' Doctors writing in the journal Thorax have warned musicians who play wind instruments of ...

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