When a specialist inserts the needle into the lungs, it may create a gap where air can escape. The doctor may carry out an X-ray several hours after the procedure to check for any leaking air.

Research is still in the early stages of how vaping affects lungs – but worrying conditions, like ‘popcorn lung’, are on the rise. Dr Stephen Broderick, of John Hopkins Medicine, has now ...

"The global economy continues to expand at a moderate rate, but it is projected to gradually lose steam, preventing a stronger and more durable labour market recovery," the ILO flagship report on ...

Paul Alexander, AKA 'the man in the iron lung', was able to live for more than 70 years inside the medical contraption prior to his death. Polio may have been eradicated from most of the world ...

The main complication of vitamin D toxicity is hypercalcemia, which is higher-than-normal levels of calcium in the blood. Hypercalcemia causes the symptoms of vitamin D toxicity. Vitamin toxicity can ...

A lung cancer drug already available on the NHS has been proven to cut bladder cancer deaths and reduce the risk of the disease returning by a third. Patients taking the drug were also 32 per cent ...

Scientists from the Francis Crick Institute, UCL, UCLH and Personalis have found that a test to detect circulating tumor DNA can predict lung cancer outcome. Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA ...

"This looked absolutely nothing like a normal black hole." The fact that the flashing was detected in the X-ray band points to the strong possibility that the source is somewhere very close to the ...

Breathing is something we do every moment, yet we rarely think about the health of our lungs until a problem arises. With rising pollution levels, smoking, and other environmental toxins ...

Buffalo Bills running back Ray Davis needed immediate medical attention when he took a hit to the head in Sunday's wild-card game. Davis was running a wheel route to the right side on a second-and ...

Spacecraft's health is normal.” On Friday, the Bengaluru-based national space agency had stated that the spacecraft were on a “hold” mode and 1.5 km away from each other. “Further drift to ...