New research has uncovered a hidden pathway that allows COVID-19 to infect the immune system and trigger damaging inflammation in the lungs. The study by La Trobe University and WEHI researchers found ...

Martha Ann Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient who used an iron lung to survive, has died at age 78 after the machine, which ...

Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States and older adults are at higher risk. But only ...

Ammonia is a chemical people may have exposure to in certain industrial or agricultural settings. In high levels, ammonia can harm the lungs and require treatment. Ammonia is a colorless gas with a ...

Although thyroid cancer first develops in the thyroid gland in the neck, it can spread (metastasize) to the lungs and other areas. Thyroid cancer can develop when atypical cells develop in the thyroid ...

When a virus enters the lungs, the immune system has to react fast. The lung maintains its own community of immune cells capable of mounting a local defense on the spot. Researchers from the ...

It took a broke medical student, a $20 fish tank, and a radical idea that could one day turn failed organs into brand-new replacements.

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, ...

Martha Ann Lillard, 78, invited News 4's Ali Meyer to her home three weeks ago because she was desperate for help with ...

Smoking blackens your lungs with tar and can cause structural damage like burst air sacs (emphysema), but quitting allows your lungs to start healing. Within 2 weeks to 3 months, lung function ...

Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago were able to keep a critically ill patient alive for 48 hours after removing both of his lungs, the hospital reported last week. The patient, a 33-year-old ...