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Lungs
The lungs are a pair of spongy, air-filled organs located on either side of the chest (thorax). The trachea (windpipe) conducts inhaled air into the lungs through its tubular branches, called bronchi. The main function of the lungs is the process of gas exchange called respiration (or breathing). Lungs are inside of your rib cage.
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JUN 21, 2016Cardiology
For unknown reasons, a new study has uncovered the ability of a protein called hepatoma derived growth factor (HDGF) to ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 18, 2016Videos
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The summer of 2015 in the South Bronx, New York City saw the worst outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease the city had ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 15, 2016Cancer
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There’s a newfound hope in immunotherapies for cancer, and it’s a drug called nivolumab. On the market under ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 03, 2016Cancer
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Jessica Wagenseil, PhD, and her team from Washington University in St. Louis compared plaque buildup in two mice groups: ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAY 16, 2016Health & Medicine
The first ever case of pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD) has been found for the first time ever in a dog. Doctors ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAY 14, 2016Cancer
For colorectal cancer caused by mutations in the RAS gene, the anticancer drug cetuximab remains the most formidable def ...MAY 11, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
rimary cilia have moved from the background of cell biology into the forefront of research. Now known to be present on a ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 06, 2016Videos
Hyperbaric chambers are often thought of as treatments for lung diseases or as a way to heal after high pressure diving ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 29, 2016Cancer
What do cancer researchers think is the most dangerous part of cancer? Metastasis. This is the ability of cancer to spre ...APR 29, 2016Health & Medicine
Whether spontaneous or due to genetic predisposition, occurrence of pulmonary hypertension is very detrimental to heart ...Written By: Kara MarkerAPR 29, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Starving immune cells of key nutrients thwarts their ability to launch an allergic response, according to new resea ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)APR 26, 2016Cardiology
Right now, in any US hospital, about half of the patients have a prescription for an acid-reducing drug to reduce h ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)APR 25, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
It was bound to happen sooner or later – the development of a marijuana breathalyzer. Created by a team from the U ...APR 22, 2016Health & Medicine
Macrophages exist in every type of body tissue, in the lungs as alveolar macrophages and in the liver as Kupffer cells. ...Written By: Kara MarkerAPR 20, 2016Health & Medicine
For atherosclerosis patients who experience a wide range of side effects to cholesterol-lowering drugs, an alternate opt ...Written By: Kara Marker
JUN 21, 2016
Cardiology
For unknown reasons, a new study has uncovered the ability of a protein called hepatoma derived growth factor (HDGF) to
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 18, 2016
Videos
CARBOHYDRATES Carbohydrates are your mind and body's main source of energy. There are two types of carbs: complex and si
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
JUN 17, 2016
Immunology
The summer of 2015 in the South Bronx, New York City saw the worst outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease the city had
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 15, 2016
Cancer
Lung cancer kills more Americans than any other type of cancer. To add more cause for alarm, a recent study found that d
...
JUN 14, 2016
Immunology
Scientists learn more everyday about the complex and unique population of microbes in the human gastrointestinal (GI) tr
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 11, 2016
Videos
An arrhythmia is an abnormal heartbeat. A healthy heart beats 60 to 100 times a minute. That's an average of 100,000 bea
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
JUN 10, 2016
Health & Medicine
A study of over a million patients with atrial fibrillation as shown that females are more likely than males to be hospi
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 07, 2016
Immunology
There’s a newfound hope in immunotherapies for cancer, and it’s a drug called nivolumab. On the market under
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 03, 2016
Cancer
After earning priority review status, the French-based pharmaceutical company Advanced Accelerator Applications just rec
...
MAY 25, 2016
Immunology
Humans have specialized immune cells designed to detect and kill abnormal cells, whether they are virally-infected or ca
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 25, 2016
Microbiology
A bacterium called Burkholderia multivorans adapts and changes in bursts in order to survive in the lungs of cystic fibr
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 21, 2016
Cancer
For the first time in 30 years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new drug for the treatment of the most
...
MAY 19, 2016
Cardiology
Jessica Wagenseil, PhD, and her team from Washington University in St. Louis compared plaque buildup in two mice groups:
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 16, 2016
Health & Medicine
The first ever case of pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD) has been found for the first time ever in a dog. Doctors
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 14, 2016
Cancer
For colorectal cancer caused by mutations in the RAS gene, the anticancer drug cetuximab remains the most formidable def
...
MAY 11, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
rimary cilia have moved from the background of cell biology into the forefront of research. Now known to be present on a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 06, 2016
Videos
Hyperbaric chambers are often thought of as treatments for lung diseases or as a way to heal after high pressure diving
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 29, 2016
Cancer
What do cancer researchers think is the most dangerous part of cancer? Metastasis. This is the ability of cancer to spre
...
APR 29, 2016
Health & Medicine
Whether spontaneous or due to genetic predisposition, occurrence of pulmonary hypertension is very detrimental to heart
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 29, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Starving immune cells of key nutrients thwarts their ability to launch an allergic response, according to new resea
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 26, 2016
Cardiology
Right now, in any US hospital, about half of the patients have a prescription for an acid-reducing drug to reduce h
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 25, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
It was bound to happen sooner or later – the development of a marijuana breathalyzer. Created by a team from the U
...
APR 22, 2016
Health & Medicine
Macrophages exist in every type of body tissue, in the lungs as alveolar macrophages and in the liver as Kupffer cells.
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 20, 2016
Health & Medicine
For atherosclerosis patients who experience a wide range of side effects to cholesterol-lowering drugs, an alternate opt
...
Written By:
Kara Marker