A study on donor lungs preserved outside the body before transplantation demonstrated that the hypothermic oxygenated machine perfusion (HOPE) technique is a safe and effective lung preservation ...

In places like Australia, where metropolitan areas are separated by an entire continent, donor hearts used to go unused ...

Dr. Jeremy London highlights the significant health advantages of nasal breathing over mouth breathing. Breathing through the ...

A rare cell type in the lungs is essential to survival from the COVID-19 virus, a new study shows.

A new report from the American Lung Association shows that Phoenix's ozone problem is worsening, while its particulate ...

As the summer season makes it way, the scare of heatwaves is starting to loom in certain parts of the country. While the human body has immense threshold of adjusting to shifting temperatures, ...

Community health workers play an important role in this collaborative strategy to improve heart health outcomes in Brown County. When we consider the differences in heart disease outcomes ...

The first human to get a patch was a 46-year-old ... of opportunities to improve access to solid organs … heart transplantation, lung transplantation, kidney, liver, et cetera," he said.

Most of the supplements that support lung health exert their benefit through decreasing inflammation. However, more human clinical studies are needed to evaluate their safety. Discussing your ...

Although lung cancer screening is recommended in the U.S. for certain individuals with a history of smoking, only 18% of eligible individuals in the U.S. get screened.

Heart failure is a global pandemic with an estimated 64.3 million cases worldwide, costing over US$100B per year. Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) accounts for nearly half of ...