Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research study the structure and workings of the heart, blood vessels and lungs. Among other things, their findings are intended to contribute ...

The polio survivor, Paul Alexander, lived inside an iron lung for 70 years. But what is an iron lung and how does it work. Video by Sanjana Bhambhani A weekly summary of the big stories from ...

Lung cancer arises in tissues of the lung, usually in the cells lining air passages. The two main types are small-cell lung cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer, according to the shape of cells ...

has spread to different lung lining layers and/or throughout the body According to Scripps, surgery for early-stage cancer removes all or part of the lung to extract the cancer. It can include ...

Like most of your organs, your lungs are surrounded by layers of connective tissue. Exactly how lung contusions develop is ...

A discovery offers new hope in the battle against pulmonary fibrosis, a debilitating lung condition that progressively makes it harder for patients to breathe. Scientists have pinpointed proteins ...