Take a deep breath. As air travels through your nose and mouth into your lungs, it brings oxygen into the body. To find out exactly how it all works, I talked to my friend Kim Chiok, a researcher at ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our lungs expand when we inhale and contract when we exhale. Sighing can ease lung function, with deep breathing playing a crucial ...

Pulmonologist Dr. Ravi Kalhan answers the internet's burning questions about our lungs. What happens to your lungs if you vape? How do our lungs know the difference between oxygen and carbon dioxide?

Laura Niklason engineered working lungs in the lab by stripping the cells from rat lungs and repopulating the remaining structure with fresh cells. Don Ingber created a "lung on a chip," which mimics ...

SEATTLE — Research at the University of Washington Medical School is finding fascinating answers to our questions about SARS-CoV-2, the virus and its variants that cause COVID-19. One of the reasons ...

The term "smoker's lung" refers to lung damage caused by smoking cigarettes. Over time, the chemicals in cigarettes damage the airways and lungs, leading to lung and respiratory diseases. Damage to ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Doctors around the world are still learning about the novel coronavirus, but it’s clear the most serious cases involve severe respiratory symptoms that can damage a person’s lungs.