CLINICIANS concerned with the care of patients requiring mechanical artificial ventilation have been impressed by the occasional development of gradually progressive deterioration of pulmonary ...

Medicare beneficiaries in the U.S. diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may soon be covered for ...

In the 1980s, when Stella Kourembanas, MD, began her career in neonatology, she cared for newborns with pulmonary ...

Lungpacer Medical’s AeroNova diaphragm neurostimulation system significantly reduced pulmonary hypertension (PH) among critically ill patients with lung failure while they were on mechanical ...

or it results from the effects of pulmonary oxygen toxicity, healing severe respiratory-distress syndrome, intermittent positive-pressure ventilation and poor bronchial drainage secondary to ...

Betsy Arakawa, the wife of Gene Hackman, died days before her husband. Health officials say here cause of death was ...

Pulmonary fibrosis is a disease where there is scarring of the lungs—called fibrosis—which makes it difficult to breathe. This is because the scarring causes the tissues in the lungs to get thick and ...

Medical care for hantavirus pulmonary syndrome may include supplemental oxygen, antibiotic therapy, fluids and mechanical or non-invasive ventilation, according to the CDC. The syndrome is fatal ...

The 88-year-old pope, who has chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young man, woke up after sleeping ...

The Vatican said doctors had to put him on noninvasive mechanical ventilation on Friday afternoon following a coughing fit in which he inhaled vomit that needed to then be extracted.

An autopsy on Arakawa found laboratory evidence of hantavirus infection and findings, she said, "consistent with Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome ... or doors to increase ventilation 30 minutes ...

Gene Hackman’s wife Betsy Arakawa died from a rare infectious disease known as hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, authorities shared March 7. Find out more about the illness.