An artificial lung system sustained a patient for 48 hours without lungs, enabling a life-saving double transplant and highlighting the need for earlier intervention in severe ARDS.

A vaccine usually trains your immune system to recognize one target. Here, the target is basically “anything that doesn’t belong in the lungs.

A study conducted by scientists from the Institut Pasteur has revealed that microbes protect the lungs from subsequently developing allergies and asthma. This long-term protection is "memorized" not ...

At Indiana Donor Network, functionality of donated lungs initially rejected for transplantation was improved, resulting ...

Cystic fibrosis treatments are improving patients’ quality of life. Three physicians from University of Iowa Health Care share more about cystic fibrosis.

As a lifelong smoker, Kara had taken up vaping four years ago as a 'healthier' alternative and would go through a vape pod ...

Before this procedure, John Kelly was told he didn't have long to live because of his scleroderma condition.

During Healthy Lung Month and the cold part of the year, you might be thinking a little more than normal about the way you breathe. But during any part of the year, we all need to get oxygen to live.

Your lungs might be telling you something important, but you’re probably not listening. While most of us obsess over wrinkles, memory lapses, or aching joints as signs of aging, we rarely consider our ...

The lungs belonged to a 52-year-old brain dead person who had indeed smoked for nearly 30 years. However ... What's False There's no evidence the person specifically smoked a pack a day, nor did the ...