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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The team's total artificial lung system, or TAL, bought the man precious time until a double lung transplant was viable.

Conventionally, patients with ARDS do not get transplants because doctors hope that with the right treatment and support, the ...

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 ...

Doctors at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago saved the life of young man using a total artificial lung that sustained him until he could receive a transplant.

The patient developed acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which is a life-threatening condition.