But how exactly does air pollution affect our health? Here’s how it can impact our lungs, heart, skin, brain and eyes… “Air pollution has both immediate and long-term impacts on health ...

But an infection can also lead to other issues, including lung and heart damage and microbiome changes in the gut, that may not always be recognized as long Covid but can still have a lasting ...

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The COVID-19 pandemic engulfed the U.S. five years ago this month, leaving not only lingering mental health effects but also long-term physical symptoms. One of those included a condition known as ...

Like smoking tobacco, smoking weed or cannabis can also have damaging effects on the lungs, although research on the subject is not as clear-cut. Smoking is one of the biggest threats to lung health.

Lung biopsy is a relatively frequently performed procedure with considerable benefit for patient management but it may, on rare occasions, result in the death of the patient. It is a multidisciplinary ...

Mechanical ventilation may be harming lungs more than helping. Tulane researchers discovered that tiny air sac collapses cause damage linked to ARDS, but tweaking ventilation techniques could prevent ...

To do all that would mean shutting down Black’s lungs and heart while placing him on life support. Black has no recollection of almost 12 hours during which he was asleep to the world before ...

Metastatic cancer to the lungs means that cancer from another region of the body has spread to the lungs. Another term for metastatic cancer to the lungs is secondary cancer in the lungs, as the ...

If you have lung cancer, treatment may come with a hefty price tag. But health insurance -- including government programs like Medicare and Medicaid -- can help cover the bills. Even if you have ...

Three women from Massachusetts were found dead in a hotel in Belize. Officials said they had a buildup of fluid in their lungs. The women were identified as Kaoutar Naqqad, Wafae El-Arar and Imane ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...