Common mucus-clearing treatments don't help ICU patients breathe easier and may cause harm, clinical trial finds

For patients struggling to breathe because of acute respiratory failure, clearing mucus from the airways is a routine part of ...

Acute respiratory distress syndrome patients improve with experimental monoclonal antibody treatment

Doctors have few options for patients who develop a life-threatening lung condition called acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS. A frequent cause of death during the COVID-19 pandemic, ARDS ...
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Effect of Altitude on the Heart and the Lungs

This review focuses on the effects of altitude exposure from 1 to several days or weeks as occurs in tourists, trekkers, and mountaineers who visit high altitude and normally reside near sea level. We ...
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Boron isotope evidence for oceanic carbon dioxide leakage during the last deglaciation

Similarly, the appearance of low δ 13 C signatures in the upper ocean at a wide number of locations globally during the deglaciation 7, 15, which is usually taken as evidence for the re-ventilation of ...