When the infection is so severe that the lungs are melting, they’re irrecoverably damaged," said thoracic surgeon Ankit ...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Surgeons report a case in which artificial lungs kept a man alive for 48 hours after both lungs were removed, allowing time for a transplant.

Elevated fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide exposure in the early to middle weeks of pregnancy had links to lower lung function measures in offspring aged 8 to 14 years, according to results ...

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.