Among 8- to 9-year-olds, those with vs. without maternal gestational diabetes mellitus exposure had two reduced measures of ...
Eating more fruit could help keep your lungs healthy and working effectively, according to new research on pollution and lung ...
Credit: Getty Images / urbazon Breathing Lessons by pulmonologist MeiLan Han, MD, uses patient-friendly language to explain how healthy lungs work and the many things that can go wrong. How do you ...
Many of the body's processes are governed by circadian rhythms which repeat in 24-hour cycles. The new study, which only focused on the hours between 8am and 5pm, suggests that lung function may be ...
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 ...
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and AlveoliX have developed the first human lung-on-chip model using stem cells ...
What are pulmonary function tests? Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are tests of lung function. They are intended to evaluate and monitor chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD is ...
For years we’ve thought of heart health as critical for living a long life. Yet an increasing number of studies have found that lung capacity may in fact be just as important a predictor of longevity.
Lung function (how well your lungs can work; estimated by tests that measure how quickly your lungs can take air in and expel it out, how good they are at oxygenating blood and removing carbon dioxide ...
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