Jean C. Pfau, Ph.D. and Kinta Serve provide their perspective on asbestos, the pleural cavity, and autoimmune disease ...

Platelets tend to cluster in lung blood vessels in people with decompensated pulmonary hypertension, increasing their risk of ...

The advice to " go with your gut " is ubiquitous but not always on point. For instance, your gut may tell you not to apply ...

Valuable data can successfully be collected with the noninvasive wearable, which is worn on the sternum, report investigators ...

"What we found was these actin-cytoskeletal genes were differentially expressed in the presence of lipopolysaccharide, which ...

Large surface area: human lungs contain about 500 million alveoli ... Good blood supply: the alveoli have a dense capillary network so that large volumes of gases can be exchanged.