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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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JAN 19, 2016
Cancer
Packaging a cancer drug in bubble containers derived from a patient’s own immune system makes it much more ef
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JAN 16, 2016
Cardiology
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a disease without a cure that a thousand new Americans every year, requires numer
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 13, 2016
Neuroscience
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered that a lipid (fat molecule) in brain cells may act a
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
JAN 12, 2016
Microbiology
Melioidosis is a potentially deadly bacterial infection, and it’s more widespread than many thought. Melioidosis i
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JAN 10, 2016
Cardiology
This year in the tenth edition of guidelines for venous thromboembolism (VTE) treatment, published in Chest, 53 updated
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 06, 2016
Immunology
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...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JAN 05, 2016
Cardiology
Some congenital heart defects can be treated easily after birth, but some require people to be treated beyond infancy, s
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 29, 2015
Cardiology
Recent data combined from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry CathPCI Registry and ACTION Registry-GWTG have ident
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 26, 2015
Health & Medicine
Have you ever had trouble breathing? People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have trouble breathing all
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
DEC 25, 2015
Videos
In the fight against lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer deaths in the US, the newest weapons are immunotherapy dru
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
DEC 24, 2015
Microbiology
People suffering from leukemia or lymphoma are particularly vulnerable to mold diseases such as aspergillosis and mucorm
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
DEC 24, 2015
Immunology
Some tumor cells in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) express programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) that bind
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 24, 2015
Videos
In 2014 the most common cancer diagnosis was breast cancer, followed by prostate, lung, colon, skin, and brain cancer. B
...
DEC 15, 2015
Clinical & Molecular DX
Instead of invasive biopsies, doctors could soon detect melanoma metastasis with a handheld scanning device. A team of r
...
DEC 11, 2015
Cardiology
Normally macrophages are called to a site of damage due to an infection or penetration of the skin, but scientists have
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 10, 2015
Cardiology
Using non-invasive Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) scientists have found a
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 10, 2015
Cardiology
The left internal thoracic artery is “associated with improved survival, graft patency, and freedom from cardiac e
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 04, 2015
Cardiology
For patients with weak hearts that need help pumping blood, an alternative to a heart transplant is an implant of a mech
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 02, 2015
Microbiology
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with Synthetic Biologics Inc., developed an antibody-
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
NOV 29, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
You probably first heard of the Tasmanian devil while watching the Looney Tunes cartoon portrayal as a child. According
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
NOV 25, 2015
Clinical & Molecular DX
To predict breast cancer progression, doctors have turned to mathematics and computer programming. Using these unconvent
...
NOV 24, 2015
Microbiology
Thanksgiving is fast-approaching, which means many of us will be chowing down on turkey. I thought, “what be
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
NOV 19, 2015
Health & Medicine
Scientists have known for a while that taking low daily doses of aspirin decreases the odds of a person having a heart a
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
NOV 19, 2015
Immunology
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) has a long history of evading both the immune system and scientists trying to study how it
...
Written By:
Kara Marker