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 ...

Small, single-center trials have shown that noninvasive ventilation benefits patients who do not respond to medical therapy for acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema. Gray and colleagues have now ...

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 ...

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 ...

Betsy Arakawa, the wife of the late Gene Hackman, died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, New Mexico officials said Friday.

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

In a late update, the Vatican said the episodes were caused by a ‘significant accumulation’ of mucus in his lungs and ...

Dr. William Feldman, a pulmonary specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, said it was a good sign that the pope remained alert and oriented, but concurred that the episode marked "a ...

John Coleman, a pulmonary critical care doctor at Northwestern ... “Often we will use noninvasive ventilation as a way of trying to stave off an intubation, or the use of invasive mechanical ...

ROME -- Pope Francis was resting Saturday after an alarming setback in his two-week recovery from double pneumonia: Doctors had to put him on noninvasive mechanical ventilation following a coughing ...