According to the National Insitute of Mental Health, an estimated one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness, ...

George Washington died after his physician treated his sore throat with bloodletting, but don't let that stop you from ...

Following a five-year hiatus, International Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (IMACS), the world’s only registry of patients with durable mechanical circulatory support (MCS) ...

The time nicotine stays in your system depends on how long and how often ... During a physical exam, for example, your clinician may check your lung capacity. Vaping, much like smoking, can ...

Scientists today hailed a breakthrough after discovering exactly how smoking can damage the lungs. Although rates ... of smoke affect our immune system and how they impact multiple parts of ...

Polio is a debilitating disease that invades the body’s nervous system, and prior to the invention ... of people globally every year. The iron lung, conceptualized in the late 1920s, was most ...

Dr Awad said smoking impacts MR1 functions, which in turn stops the immune system doing its job to protect the lungs. “We know smoking is very dangerous and it’s the third leading cause of dea ...

A lung biopsy involves the removal of tissue or growths from the lungs. A doctor will use special devices, such as a fine needle, to remove the sample. A lung biopsy can help diagnose lung ...