A novel artificial lung could help keep people whose lungs no longer function alive long enough to get an organ transplant ...

Conventionally, patients with ARDS do not get transplants because doctors hope that with the right treatment and support, the ...

Pneumocystis is an unwieldy genus of fungal pathogens that cause severe pneumonia, particularly in immunocompromised people ...

UF Health Cancer Institute researchers have discovered a small compound produced naturally by gut bacteria that doubled the response to lung cancer immunotherapy treatment in mice and can now be made ...

UF Health Cancer Institute researchers have discovered a small compound produced naturally by gut bacteria that doubled the response to lung cancer immunotherapy treatment in mice and can now be made ...

Northwestern University scientists have uncovered what they say may potentially be a previously unknown, hidden player in pneumonia. In their newly reported study, the scientists found that the lungs’ ...

A research team in Dublin believes it has found a way to stop whooping cough not only from making people sick, but from spreading quietly through communities at all. Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and collaborators have reported early success with a novel mRNA-based therapy designed to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The findings, ...

A man in Ireland earned the unpleasant distinction of developing an exceedingly rare infection on his penis—one that has a puzzling origin, but may be connected to his work with dead animals.

A phase 3 trial evaluating a nebulized clofazimine inhalation suspension (MNKD-101) for the treatment of refractory nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) lung disease has been discontinued. The ...

Pope Francis has been in hospital in Rome since Friday, when he was diagnosed with a polymicrobial respiratory tract infection. Given he is 88 and has one lung, he faces greater risks from the ...