On the morning of 29 December, Delhi NCR woke up with a thick blanket of dense fog. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD ...

Neutrophils are the most abundant immune cells in the body and the first to respond to infection or tissue damage. Yet despite their importance, until now very little was known about how they truly ...

The bronchi are tubes that carry air from the trachea to the lungs and back out. The bronchi help trap and remove germs that can make you sick. Bronchitis, asthma, and COPD are some conditions that ...

The lungs consist of tiny air sacs called alveoli. Emphysema damages the alveoli and destroys lung tissue. Bullous emphysema (BE) refers to damaged alveoli that distend to form large air spaces, ...

Researchers in China used machine learning — a type of artificial intelligence in which computers detect patterns in datasets and then make predictions — to create diagnostic and prognostic models for ...

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, United States; Our capacity to perform heavy physical exercise is ...

As a person with a chronic illness, I'm no stranger to bloodwork. I used to pore over my lab results, googling the various meanings, and trying not to panic when a test fell out of range. Function ...

Your lungs are 2 sponge-like organs in your chest that are separated into sections called lobes. Your right lung has 3 lobes. Your left lung has 2 lobes. The left lung is smaller because the heart ...

Alveoli are tiny air sacs in your lungs that take up the oxygen you breathe in and keep your body going. Although they’re microscopic, alveoli are the workhorses of your respiratory system. People ...

Alveoli are tiny air sacs in the lungs that help move oxygen into the bloodstream and remove carbon dioxide. Surfactant fluid helps keep alveoli open so gases can pass through easily. Diseases like ...