New York University Langone successfully performed the world’s first robotic double lung transplant last October 22. Yahoo News says John Hopkins University and Stanford University researchers ...

Nov. 6, 2024 — Exhaled breath contains chemical clues to what's going on inside the body, including diseases like lung cancer. And devising ways to sense these compounds could help doctors ...

Dec. 5, 2024 — Improvements in cancer prevention and screening have averted more deaths from five cancer types combined over the past 45 years than treatment advances, according to a modeling study.

However, there are many benefits to EBV treatment compared to more invasive treatment methods such as lung volume reduction or lung transplant surgery, and depending on your situation you may ...

Here, we report the first clinical trial treating IPF patients with autologous P63+ lung progenitor cell product (REGEND001) transplantation. The progenitor cells were isolated from a trace amount of ...

Another patient was a 63-year-old male who had a kidney transplant. A year later he developed cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection which was confirmed by the finding of inclusion bodies in esophageal ...

Symptoms of some of the diseases that mimic lung cancer, such as asthma or acid reflux, are common with many conditions. They can include persistent cough, chest pain, shortness of breath, unexplained ...

This is because the scarring causes the tissues in the lungs to get thick and stiff and makes it hard to absorb oxygen into the bloodstream. Pulmonary fibrosis is an interstitial lung disease.

In the recent decades, there has been an increase in the aging population across the world coupled with declining birth rates and an increased lifespan of individuals. The proportion of the ...

The drugmaker has had mixed results from Wave1, with approvals for dengue fever vaccine Qdenga and post-transplant cytomegalovirus (CMV) therapy Livtencity (maribavir), while first-in-class lung ...

2.10 Lentiviral production, viral infection and ectopic PGF expression The placental growth factor (PGF) coding sequence was amplified using gene specific primers and then subcloned into a lentiviral ...