To survive, humans need at least one functioning lung to move oxygen into their blood. But for 48 hours, a 33-year-old man stayed alive with “artificial lungs” until he was well enough to get a ...

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 ...

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

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 at the UNC School of Medicine have developed a tool that can identify airway mucus abnormalities in patients with ...

The external, artificial-lung system could be used to treat other people who are critically unwell and awaiting transplants.

When appropriate, surgery remains the most effective treatment option for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), including for patients with COPD, said Friedberg, professor in the Department of Thoracic ...

A retrospective study finds that more than one third of patients with stage I-IIIA non-small cell lung cancer do not undergo ...

For two days, the patient lived as a human being with no lungs, stabilized by a machine that breathed and buffered his ...

Abnormally high levels of lung-injury biomarkers in the blood after COVID-19 infection may flag patients at risk for ongoing lung disease, an Imperial College London–led study suggests.