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Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Thoracic surgery — the treatment of diseases of the lungs ...

Humans can’t live without lungs. And yet for 48 hours, in a surgical suite at Northwestern University, a 33-year-old man lived with an empty cavity in his chest where his lungs used to be. He was kept ...

Abstract: This manual is designed to simulate the electrical conductivity measurement of chest tissue, with the objective of evaluating the influence of anatomical features on the electrical ...

The troubling trend of younger people being diagnosed with cancer. Lung cancer is one we're seeing more of in young people who've never smoked. Christy Houvouras, 37, is one of them. A few months ago, ...

Lung cancer is a killer, claiming the lives of more Americans than any other type of cancer. That’s because it’s often found late, when it has already spread, says Dr. Humberto Choi, a pulmonologist ...

Computerised chest radiograph analysis revealed that the surfactant treatment led to better aeration in the right lung than in the left lung among infants born extremely preterm with respiratory ...