Researchers reported a novel "total artificial lung" approach to extracorporeal support for a patient who needed bilateral lung transplantation due to infection. Similar cases have been reported with ...

Ben Askren’s facing his toughest fight yet, but he’s not backing down. On July 12, 2025, the former UFC welterweight shared an Instagram video from his hospital bed, updating fans on his recovery from ...

A patient who developed a life-threatening condition managed to live without lungs for two days – thanks to surgeons who built him an artificial one. The 33-year-old man developed acute respiratory ...

Recently, MMA veteran Ben Askren had to go through a huge ordeal after both his lungs collapsed due to a staph infection. He was immediately admitted to the hospital, where doctors closely monitored ...

Ben Askren headed home from the hospital this week with a new set of lungs and a second chance at life. Or, depending on how you think about it, maybe it’s more like a fourth or fifth chance, since ...

A total artificial lung system developed at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine kept a patient alive for 48 hours after lung removal and prior to lung transplant, according to a study publishing Jan.

The lungs are one of the most important organs in the human body. They help us breathe by taking in oxygen and removing carbon dioxide. Without them, life cannot continue. However, doctors have ...

Severe respiratory viral infection increases risk for lung cancer, according to study results.The findings — derived from work in murine models and retrospective analyses of data from humans — ...

New research from UVA Health finds severe COVID-19 and influenza can prime the lungs for cancer and speed the disease’s development, but vaccination can help prevent those effects. “A bad case of ...

Aging lungs may be sabotaging themselves—fueling runaway inflammation that turns mild infections into life-threatening illness.