Cigarette smoking is widespread and deadly, yet our understanding of how cigarette smoke actually causes serious respiratory ...

Polio is a debilitating disease that invades the body’s nervous system ... of thousands of people globally every year. The iron lung, conceptualized in the late 1920s, was most notably the ...

Aspartate plays important roles in the body, including in the lungs. As an amino acid, it’s one of the building blocks of proteins, crucial to the structure and function of lung cells.

A new machine which keeps lungs alive outside of the body could "transform" the number of people receiving transplants, surgeons hope. The breakthrough has come at Royal Papworth Hospital in ...

Before the invention of the polio vaccine, the iron lung supported patients whose lungs were weakened or paralyzed by polio.