Pulmonologist Dr. Ravi Kalhan, MD answers the internet's burning questions about our lungs. Why do we yawn and why is it contagious? How do lungs heal after a smoker quits? What chemicals actually ...

Types of Lung Disease and How They Disrupt the Way We Breathe: By Vagisha Jha Breathing is something we rarely think about, until it becomes difficult. Our lungs work tirelessly every second, drawing ...

What if scientists could build a realistic model of the human lung, not full-sized, but grown in the lab from living cells? Why would they do this? VIDO scientists based at the University of ...

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, ...

Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are investigating how mechanical forces—such as stretching and changes in tissue stiffness—influence viral infection rates in the lungs to understand ...

As colder months set in, respiratory infections begin to climb: everything from the common cold and flu to COVID. It’s a time when healthy lungs matter more than ever. Yet the very tissue that lets ...

Breathing in the warm summer breeze and exhaling a smoky breath into the icy winter air are all made possible by our lungs—without them, a person couldn’t survive. However, the lungs are vulnerable to ...