Satish N. Nadig, MD, PhD, Chief of the Division of Abdominal Organ Transplant and Director of the Northwestern Medicine ...

A new report from the American Lung Association notes a drastic decline in air quality and raises health alarms. Climate ...

A new report on air quality across the U.S. offers a cloudy prognosis on the long-term health of about 156 million residents ...

The pleura (plural: pleurae) is a two-layered membrane that covers the lung. Between the layers is a small amount of lubricating fluid, known as pleural fluid, which helps cushion the lung and reduce ...

Katherine Heigl has revealed she has never watched Grey’s Anatomy with her children as she’s worried they’ll ridicule her for some of the show’s more bizarre scenes. The actor, 46 ...

Doctors at the local hospital found a fluid-filled abscess in the right lobe of his liver ... piercing hearts, lungs, and even the thyroid. What sets this case apart, however, is the way the ...

Radiographs are considered typical if they show either an upper lobe infiltrate or a cavitary lesion in the upper lung zones. The presence of lymphadenopathy, a lower or middle lobe infiltrate, or ...

Other Types of Emphysema Part of the diagnostic process may involve confirming the specific type of emphysema that is affecting your lungs. While PLE affects all lobes of the lungs, the others impact ...

First study evaluated the lung parenchymal changes in chronic PE and two studies used an AI model to classify PE, with none directly assessing the pulmonary arteries. In addition, a separate study ...

The liver consists of 2 main lobes. Both are made up of 8 segments that consist of 1,000 lobules (small lobes). These lobules are connected to small ducts (tubes) that connect with larger ducts to ...

Surgery is reserved only for patients with limited disease. Anatomy of the respiratory system, showing the trachea and both lungs and their lobes and airways. Lymph nodes and the diaphragm are also ...

The cerebellum (“little brain”) is a fist-sized portion of the brain located at the back of the head, below the temporal and occipital lobes and above the brainstem. Like the cerebral cortex, it has ...