The maximum amount of air you can breathe in and out is your vital lung capacity. Everybody’s vital lung capacity is different depending on factors such as their age and fitness levels.

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The iron lung was a large, cylindrical unit (measuring up to six feet in length) that functioned as a respirator to help patients who couldn ...

The Arsenal Foundation helped to fund a new Lung Function Unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), which was opened by Arsène Wenger in 2012. We hear from two people with close links to the unit ...