“Specialists who place breathing tubes in the hospital (emergency medicine, anesthesiology and critical care clinicians) have expressed concerns that smaller breathing tubes might keep patients on a ...

Earlier this year, an ambulance brought a man in his 80s to the emergency room at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He had metastatic lung cancer; his family had arranged for hospice care at ...

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been approved for $7 million in research funding by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study the effect of breathing tube size on ...

Research from the University of Michigan Medical School finds that one in three hospitalized patients remain connected to a breathing tube after passing a spontaneous breathing trial. While a delay in ...

Holly Bergo, a Moorhead woman who received a lung transplant a week ago at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn., was off a breathing tube and breathing on her own Friday, according to a journal update ...

The coronavirus is straining the global health care system, with one piece of lifesaving medical equipment in particularly scarce supply: mechanical ventilators. A ventilator helps patients who cannot ...

TUCSON, Ariz. -- Doctors on Saturday removed Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' breathing tube and could soon know if she can speak. Giffords had an operation Saturday to replace the breathing tube with a ...

History of your doctor’s stethoscope How did a physician listen to a patient’s heartbeat or breathing before the invention of the stethoscope? He listened, he put his ear right down on the patient’s ...

Four years ago this month, every beat of newborn Justice Altidor’s heart came with labored breathing. Even after surgeons at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta cut blood vessels from her heart, which ...

It’s no secret that ticks can carry scary illnesses such as Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. But there’s one tickborne illness that most people aren’t aware of. It’s known as tick ...