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 ...

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

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

A new artificial lung system might keep people without lungs alive for weeks. Like real lungs, tubes and pumps oxygenate ...

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 ...

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

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

In 2023 thoracic surgeon Ankit Bharat was working at Northwestern Memorial Hospital when he was drafted to help a 33-year-old ...

U.S. medical staff achieved an unprecedented feat by completely removing both lungs of a man in his 30s whose lung function ...

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

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.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Deployment-related distal lung disease was frequently reported among veterans. Lung function following ...