VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis is showing improvement, is alert and doing some work, the Vatican said on Friday, as the 88-year-old pontiff began his eighth day in hospital battling pneumonia. Read more ...

If you're catching colds or feeling under the weather more often during this season, a few straightforward changes to your ...

Spread the loveCardiovascular training, often referred to as cardio, is an exercise system primarily focused on improving the ...

Following a five-year hiatus, International Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (IMACS), the world’s only registry of patients with durable mechanical circulatory support (MCS) ...

Figure 3 Pathways of intestinal bacterial translocation. Intestinal pathogenic bacteria, PAMPs, and metabolites translocate to the lung via lymphatic route and blood circulatory system. Figure 4 The ...

Lung cancer screening aims to find lung cancer early. This is when there are more treatment options available and there is the best chance of treating it successfully. In the UK, the National ...

The gold standard for finding lung cancer early is computed tomography (CT) lung cancer screening. However, this is limited to people who have smoked. Currently, there are more non-smokers (never ...

Objectives To investigate the sex-specific association between smoking and lung cancer. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data sources We searched PubMed and EMBASE from 1 January 1999 to 15 ...

The GOLD system previously classified COPD from stages 1 to 4 solely based on your lung capacity measured by a spirometry test. But the newest GOLD guidelines combine your spirometry results with ...

As cancer cells multiply, there is a greater risk of spreading (metastasizing). Cancer cells escape from the original tumor and travel through the lymphatic system or blood vessels into other areas of ...

The time nicotine stays in your system depends on how long and how often ... During a physical exam, for example, your clinician may check your lung capacity. Vaping, much like smoking, can ...