Scientists are sharpening their warnings that the cloud hanging over someone’s vape is not harmless mist but a chemically ...

Lung cancer tumor cells in mice communicate with the brain, sending signals to deactivate the body’s immune response, a study ...

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

With its potent punch in every dose of oranges, kiwis, and that tiny bottle of vitamins on your grocer’s shelf, vitamin C might just be what you need to safeguard your lungs from the devious attack of ...

Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body—although briefly—for the first time. The lung survived for nine days, marking ...

An experimental drug now in clinical trials as a cancer treatment could help boost the power of first-line tuberculosis (TB) treatments by helping infected cells die a gentler death, investigators ...

As organ transplant science advances, its biggest hurdles are increasingly logistical ones—such as securing a flight and navigating through traffic fast enough to deliver an organ before it ...

The pair of lungs sits inside a clear dome, gently inflating as doctors measure how well they'll breathe if implanted into a patient who desperately needs a new set. It's a little-known twist of ...

In the spring of 2023, a 33-year-old man arrived at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago with lungs that were rapidly shutting down. What started as a bout of influenza had spiraled into acute ...