Lung Cancer Awareness Month: Lung regenerationby
Dave W
of the lung alveoliThe tiny air sacs of the lungs where gas exchange takes place.
Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College suggest that humans “have the potential to regenerate their lung alveoli...
Bodyweight Exercise Series: Good Lunges, Bad Lungesby
Mark D.
Use bodyweight lunges as part of your dynamic warm-up or as a strength exercise. Bodyweight lunges are great for adding muscular balance and dynamic balance to your lower body because you work one...
How vitamin D fights infections in lungsby
Dr. John Z.
Vitamin D - a steroid-like vitamin that affects over 200 genes in the body - is essential to good health but needs to be activated to function properly in the human body. Until recently, this activation was thought to happen
Atelectasis implies incomplete lung expansion. There are many causes for this, from something as simple as not taking a deep breath, to something as deadly as a cancer blocking part of the lung...