Did you know the Amazon rainforest is called the “lungs of the Earth”? It covers over 2.5 million square miles. It’s home to ...

Your lungs are made up of five sections or lobes — three in your right lung and two in your left. A lobectomy removes one or more of these lobes. After the surgery, your healthy tissue makes up ...

Medically reviewed by Josephine Hessert, DO Pulmonary angiography is a test that studies blood flow in your lungs. Its ...

Try saline spray. Saline sprays can also help loosen mucus and move it out of your sinuses, per Kelley. Take a steamy shower.

This creates a bigger space in the chest and the change in pressure makes air flow ... goes down into the lungs, it passes through smaller and smaller tubes and ends up in tiny air sacs called ...

Although some people may consider vaping a better alternative to smoking, it can still lead to lung damage. Scientists are still investigating the effects of vaping and whether lung damage may heal.

She’s lived 20 years with and managing pulmonary fibrosis, but now Andrea Hall has two new lungs. Hall was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis as a 17-year-old Dixie Heights senior.