The lungs are a pair of cone-shaped, soft, spongy, pinkish organs. They're situated in the chest, behind your ribcage, with the heart between the right lung and the left lung. We breathe with our ...

Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are lung tests. They show how well your lungs work. They’re noninvasive, which means that the doctor doesn’t cut you or put any tools inside your body.

Treatments, such as chemotherapy with radiation therapy, may work to cure limited-stage SCLC. Extensive-stage SCLC means the cancer has spread throughout one or both lungs or to other parts of the ...

Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are investigating how mechanical forces—such as stretching and changes in tissue stiffness—influence viral infection rates in the lungs to understand ...