Attempts to treat pneumonia typically focus on pneumonia-causing pathogens. However, at Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, researchers have been exploring a different approach. They are trying to ...

video: The Wyss Institute’s human breathing lung-on-a-chip, made using human lung and blood vessel cells, acts much like a lung in a human body. A vacuum re-creates the way the lungs physically expand ...

NBC News correspondent Morgan Chesky was hospitalized with high-altitude pulmonary edema while on a trip to Utah’s Zion National Park. HAPE occurs when fluid builds up in the lungs and prevents oxygen ...

On Wednesday, the correspondent shared a detailed description on Instagram of his frightening Utah trip, where he suffered from a high altitude pulmonary edema while hiking Morgan Chesky is recovering ...

Fluid on the lungs, or pulmonary edema as it's formally known, is a relatively little known hazard associated with open water swimming, warn doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports after treating a ...

A 62-year-old man with a history of dilated cardiomyopathy and a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of 30% presents to the emergency department with complaints of shortness of breath and weight ...

Aaron Gunches, the first person Arizona executed in years, died from acute pentobarbital toxicity. The medical examiner's report showed no signs of pulmonary edema, a concern raised before his ...

The swimmer came to shore struggling to breathe and coughing up blood. A keen competitive long-distance swimmer and triathlete, the woman was fit and healthy when she started a nighttime open water ...

While most people experience occasional puffiness in warm weather or after exercise, persistent swelling around the nails can sometimes reveal an underlying health problem. In rare cases, it could ...

The extensive range of diagnostic capabilities and the compact dimensions of ultrasound systems have made lung ultrasonography an indispensable tool for diagnostic imaging. Lung ultrasonography ...

video: Fluorescent fibrin clots in the alveolar microchannel of the human lung-on-a-chip. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 7, 2012, issue of Science Translational Medicine, ...