While some types of cancer can be treated successfully, they may relapse, meaning a complete cure for cancer is not always ...

Penn researchers have developed a platform that emulates human bone marrow’s native environment. This breakthrough addresses ...

One reason that tonsils may grow back is that one of the operations to remove them is a partial tonsillectomy. Only removing ...

An international team of scientists have discovered that soap could be important to helping our understanding of complex ...

Part of that spike is due to rising rates of cancers that affect primarily women, including breast cancer and endometrial ...

Candace Chapman Scott came into contact with Jeremy Lee Pauley, who bought a skull, brain, arm, ear, several lungs, hearts, ...

A smaller proportion of women vs. men underwent lung transplantation, plus women spent a longer time on the wait list before ...

Cigarette smoking is widespread and deadly, yet our understanding of how cigarette smoke actually causes serious respiratory illnesses is incomplete, which has severely hampered the development of ...

Before the invention of the polio vaccine, the iron lung supported patients whose lungs were weakened or paralyzed by polio. This is its impact today.

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

The case of the Canadian teen and the death of a Louisiana man are stark reminders of bird flu’s capacity to ignite serious ...

Disorders of surfactant protein biology cause dysfunction of alveolar type 2 cells and can lead to interstitial lung disease. This study describes the development of genetically manipulable, mature ...