For those of us who took the school bus as children, the smell of diesel exhaust is almost a core memory; I remember how it would linger in my nose and lungs as I rode to school, and the sight of the ...

When it comes to lung healing and recovery, many well-intentioned approaches actually hinder rather than help the natural healing process. The lungs possess remarkable regenerative capabilities, but ...

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 ...

When surgeons removed a 33-year-old woman’s right lung as part of her cancer treatment in 1995, they expected a dramatic and permanent reduction in her breathing power. But that’s not what happened.

If you have been feeling breathless throughout the day lately, do not just blame the environment or pollution. Certain lifestyle behaviours can also cause great harm to your lungs, especially when you ...

3D-printed lungs made with living cells could help to improve lung disease prevention and treatment—and potentially one day offer a lab-grown option for use in organ transplants. University 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" ...

Surgery is a common treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), particularly when the disease is detected early and the tumor is small and is only in one part of the lung. For small cell lung ...

The team's total artificial lung system, or TAL, bought the man precious time until a double lung transplant was viable. Reading time 3 minutes Our lungs are crucial for every breath of life we take.

Humans can’t live without lungs. And yet for 48 hours, in a surgical suite at Northwestern University, a 33-year-old man lived with an empty cavity in his chest where his lungs used to be. He was kept ...

Doctors in Chicago saved the life of a young Missouri man with a rare infection that had liquefied his lungs, hooking him up to what they have called a total artificial lung. The patient, whose name ...