A Chinese woman who ate homemade soy sauce marinated crab was hospitalized after showing severe symptoms of food ...

The release of Helldivers 2's Into the Unjust update introduces a variety of new features: challenging new enemies like burrowing Rupture variants, the devious Dragonroach, and the nigh-unkillable ...

A man in China became the first recipient of a pig lung. The genetically modified pig organ was transplanted into the 39-year-old, according to an Aug. 26 report by the journal Nature. The procedure ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide, responsible for 3.5 million deaths in 2021, according to the World Health Organization. It’s a common ...

Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body—although briefly—for the first time. The lung survived for nine days, marking ...

The demographics of lung cancer change every day. The disease, which directly affects the respiratory system, has long been associated with smokers—but that is rapidly changing. "Before it was rare, ...

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United Therapeutics is making headway in unlocking a new lung disease market for its drug Tyvaso (treprostinil) with a pivotal phase 3 win in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). United’s Teton-2 ...

Six have died and 34 people have been infected by the virulent bacteria Vibrio vulnificus, which health officials say is “so prolific right now” Two more people have died of vibriosis, the infection ...

A study by researchers from Wuhan University, York University (UK) and Peking University has uncovered how Escherichia coli (E. coli) persister bacteria survive antibiotics by protecting their genetic ...

Another two people are dead and at least 22 more have been hospitalized because of a flesh-eating bacteria in Louisiana, state health officials confirmed. The reports involved Vibrio vulnificus ...