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

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

The Latest in Surgical Management of Stage IIIA Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer: Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery and Tumor Molecular Profiling The burden of lung cancer, which accounts for 27% of all ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) -A new robotic system at Ochsner is reducing risks associated with lung biopsies and helping patients become surgical candidates sooner. The Ion robotics system has lowered the ...

Man was kept alive on artificial lung for two days while he waited for double transplant - Only about 150 to 200 lung ...

Doctors at Baylor College of Medicine have confirmed that the use of the portable Organ Care System (OCS), or “breathing lung” technology, boosts long-term survival for transplant patients. This ...

With the first breath, the lungs require to develop immunological defense mechanisms while maintaining the gas exchange. The postnatal immunological development of the lungs remained largely unknown ...

Lung cancer is the number one cause of death from cancer in men and the second in women, with more than 1.6 million new cases and 1.4 million deaths every year, worldwide. In contrast with the 1980s ...

A new, non-antibiotic approach to targeting bacterial infections like Staphylococcus aureus - which are notoriously difficult to treat - may stem from inhibiting neuron activity. In a new study from ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Inflammation caused by lupus may affect the lungs in many ways, and can involve the membrane lining of the lungs, the lungs themselves, the blood vessels within the lungs, and the diaphragm. The most ...