Detroit Pistons All-Star guard Cade Cunningham suffered a left pneumothorax and a collapsed lung apparently after colliding ...

KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, in collaboration with the Francis Crick Institute, has discovered how cancer cells can ...

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Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S., killing hundreds of people every day, according to the American Lung Association. While more people are surviving lung cancer than ...

Your lungs and breathing do more than just supply oxygen! They influence mood, stress and can lower blood pressure. How these organs shape our lives. The lungs supply the body with oxygen and remove ...

Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago were able to keep a critically ill patient alive for 48 hours after removing both of his lungs, the hospital reported last week. The patient, a 33-year-old ...

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can damage the heart even without directly infecting the heart tissue, a new study has found. The research specifically looked at damage to the hearts of ...

Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours. Reporting in the journal Med, surgeons describe how they removed a patient's infected lungs and built "artificial lungs" ...

In 2023 thoracic surgeon Ankit Bharat was working at Northwestern Memorial Hospital when he was drafted to help a 33-year-old influenza patient who was on the verge of death. Bharat recalls that the ...

The disease is the rare cancer met with accusations, not sympathy. By Simar Bajaj Simar Bajaj spoke to over a dozen patients with lung cancer for this story. When Jim Pantelas was diagnosed with lung ...

Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker T.J. Watt suffered a partially collapsed lung after undergoing a dry needling treatment session at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex on Wednesday, his brother J.J. Watt ...