Large mechanical ventilators in which blood from the patient is circulated through a machine to oxygenate it could one day be a thing of the past. Researchers in Cleveland, Ohio, have built an ...

A new artificial lung has reached efficiencies akin to the genuine organ, using air -- not pure oxygen as current human-made lungs require -- for the source of the essential element. The device is a ...

Blood must carry something of value and that begins in the lungs, where every breath determines what the bloodstream can ...

Mechanical ventilation can contribute to lung damage by inducing rapid changes in oxygen levels. Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna are now conducting studies for the first time into the ...

Observing how people breathe inside subway cars reveals a commonality. Most people take relatively quick breaths, with only ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has developed tiny sensors that measure oxygen transport in bovine lung tissue. The study - which establishes ...

Pulmonologist Dr. Ravi Kalhan, MD answers the internet's burning questions about our lungs. Why do we yawn and why is it ...

To crack the mystery of what causes silent hypoxia, a condition when oxygen levels in the body are abnormally low, biomedical engineers used computer modeling to test out three different scenarios ...