When the infection is so severe that the lungs are melting, they’re irrecoverably damaged," said thoracic surgeon Ankit ...

Pulmonary function tests are a group of noninvasive breathing tests that measure how much air your lungs can hold, how quickly you can move air in and out and how efficiently your lungs transfer ...

Novel artificial lungs could help keep people whose lungs no longer function alive long enough to get an organ transplant ...

Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours.

New research has identified the mechanism by which air pollution damages the lungs’ self-cleaning system, leaving us vulnerable to infection. In doing so, it has also identified a way to reverse that ...

Researchers have genetically profiled nearly 200,000 cells from lungs, mapping their precise locations in tissue to discover an unexpected new immune niche in our airways The most comprehensive lung ...

A new method of scanning lungs is able to show the effects of treatment on lung function in real time and enable experts to see the functioning of transplanted lungs. This could enable medics to ...

While medical headlines often focus on the biochemical underpinnings of disease, our body's biomechanics are equally crucial. A recent study explores how hypertension affects lung function, revealing ...

Surgeons report a case in which artificial lungs kept a man alive for 48 hours after both lungs were removed, allowing time ...

U.S. medical staff achieved an unprecedented feat by completely removing both lungs of a man in his 30s whose lung function ...

Whether you’re reaching the summit of a mountain or coming to the end of a HIIT class, most of us will feel puffed out during exercise. You might have wondered how to increase lung capacity so that ...