Deep sighs physically reset the lung’s inner surface. This lowers breathing effort and explains why caregivers use controlled ...

What if scientists could build a realistic model of the human lung, not full-sized, but grown in the lab from living cells?

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...

A research team has determined that severe obesity causes the lungs to age faster. The team was led by Prof. Dr. Veronika Lukacs-Kornek from the "ImmunoSensation2" Cluster of Excellence at the ...

The flu almost killed 34-year-old Davey Bauer, a landscaper from DeSoto, Missouri, who was addicted to vaping. But an innovative doctor — and some DD-sized breast implants — made him eligible for a ...

If he had it to do all over again, Davey Bauer might have gotten a flu shot. For sure, he would have said no thank you to cigarettes and then vaping. Instead, Bauer has a story to tell about living ...