A WOMAN was convinced she was having a heart attack when her lung popped out of the blue while she was opening her 21st birthday presents. Olivia Smith had no prior health issues and was neither a ...

Good morning, Chicago. The lungs that Dr. Ankit Bharat took out of Tadd Crosslin, a 49-year-old father of twins, were marred with billions of cancer cells. They were “perhaps the most diseased that we ...

It sounds a little like Fantastic Voyage. Instead of a submarine and crew inside the body, a camera inserted into a patient’s ...

More than 600 lung transplants have been performed since Northwestern Medicine launched its lung transplant program back in ...

For 5 weeks, the tiny Impella kept Katrina Penney's failed heart pumping while a second heart transplant was secured.

Finding it hard to breathe when you lay down is medically called orthopnea. Find a list of potential causes to help narrow ...

The young woman is believed to have been part of the Manteño people, who lived along the Ecuadorian coast and survived by ...

Anxiety can sometimes cause physical symptoms like chest pain and pressure. But because these symptoms can also indicate heart conditions, it’s important to get an accurate diagnosis.

The burial of a young woman, possibly as young as 17, was identified as “burial 10” and dated to between 771 and 953 A.D., according to the study. Fetal cranial fragments were found near her pelvis, ...

An M Health Fairview doctor created her own VR and 3D-printing technology to operate on a tumor that enveloped 85% of Jayden’s chest when he was born. (Leila Navidi/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

This can allow air to leak into the chest cavity, causing the lung to collapse.” To address this risk, patients are closely monitored during their hospital stay. “We take chest X-rays daily ...

One such comment reads, “…now it is time to boycott. since they only care about money to the point they remove a simple chest every now and then, the only way they will listen is through money ...