Smoking can cause lungs to look blackened, inflated, and inflamed, but some of the damage is reversible. Depending on the extent of the damage, it could take years for your lungs to regain a healthy, ...
Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...
A US teenager was recently reported to have developed the oddly named medical condition "popcorn lung" after vaping in secret for three years. Officially known as bronchiolitis obliterans, popcorn ...
Researchers from UC San Francisco have discovered blood stem cells in the lungs, disrupting a decades-old belief that new blood cells were only made in the bone marrow. Conventionally it was thought ...
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In the mid-20th century, community spaces like swimming pools and sporting events became a source of anxiety for parents who were frightened by the rampant spread of poliovirus. Their concerns weren’t ...
University of Calgary researchers have discovered the lungs communicate directly with the brain when there is an infection. Findings show the brain plays a critical role in triggering the symptoms of ...
Five years on, scientists are starting to understand how the virus can lead to long-term, sometimes invisible changes. Credit...Ibrahim Rayintakath Supported by By Dani Blum Nina Agrawal and Alice ...
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