A New Ventilator-on-a-Chip Model to Study Lung Damage Sep. 19, 2024 — Scientists are now able to directly compare the different kinds of injury that mechanical ventilation causes to cells in the ...

When you smoke, you inhale about 600 compounds, according to the American Lung Association. These are then broken down into 7,000 chemicals when burning, many of which are known to cause cancer.

It's important to seek medical help when necessary. Aspiration pneumonia is characterized by a failure of the physiological mechanisms that prevent food and other substances from entering the trachea ...

Dec. 3, 2024 — An analysis of fungi collected from peat bogs has identified several species that produce substances toxic to the bacterium that causes the human disease tuberculosis. The ...

According to the WHO, the top 10 causes of death accounted for 39 million deaths, representing 57% of the total 68 million deaths worldwide.

ASTANA, Dec 26 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's senate chairman said on Thursday that the cause of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash was still unknown. "None of these countries - neither Azerbaijan ...

There are other types of pericarditis as well, and the cause can be unknown (idiopathic). One known cause is a viral infection. SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, is one of the ...

Headache and nausea often occur together. This can happen in primary headache disorders like migraines in which the headache causes the nausea. Headache and nausea can also occur together as ...