Workers are facing a preventable and incurable lung disease from a material being used to renovate kitchens in millions of American homes.
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Thousands of Canadians are on waiting lists for life-saving organ transplants. An opt-out organ donor system, like the one Nova Scotia is implementing, could reduce avoidable deaths and suffering.
Sport can provide organ recipients with motivation and a chance to celebrate.
A recent study found the largest cluster of advanced black lung disease ever recorded among coal miners in central Appalachia. Two doctors who treat black lung patients explain how miners contract it.
A certain type of immune system cell is necessary for lung transplants to be successful. It was known that memory T cells…
Researchers have discovered a new set of chemical factors that transform human embryonic stem cells into functional lung…
Transplant recipients without diabetes are expected to live twice as long as patients with the disease. The study focused…
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