The team's total artificial lung system, or TAL, bought the man precious time until a double lung transplant was viable.

In 2023 thoracic surgeon Ankit Bharat was working at Northwestern Memorial Hospital when he was drafted to help a 33-year-old ...

Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours.

A new artificial lung system might keep people without lungs alive for weeks. Like real lungs, tubes and pumps oxygenate ...

For two days, the patient lived as a human being with no lungs, stabilized by a machine that breathed and buffered his ...

U.S. medical staff achieved an unprecedented feat by completely removing both lungs of a man in his 30s whose lung function ...

The external, artificial-lung system could be used to treat other people who are critically unwell and awaiting transplants.

A retrospective study finds that more than one third of patients with stage I-IIIA non-small cell lung cancer do not undergo ...

New research has identified the mechanism by which air pollution damages the lungs’ self-cleaning system, leaving us vulnerable to infection. In doing so, it has also identified a way to reverse that ...

Pulmonary function tests are a group of noninvasive breathing tests that measure how much air your lungs can hold, how quickly you can move air in and out and how efficiently your lungs transfer ...

Elevated fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide exposure in the early to middle weeks of pregnancy had links to lower lung function measures in offspring aged 8 to 14 years, according to results ...

Abnormally high levels of lung-injury biomarkers in the blood after COVID-19 infection may flag patients at risk for ongoing lung disease, an Imperial College London–led study suggests.