The Respiratory System

This is not a good thing for lung function.

A man in China had a habit of walking home from work every day, taking off his socks and… taking a great big whiff of them, according to news reports.

A man in California surprised his doctors when he coughed up an unusual looking blood clot: It was in the shape of his lung.

Ancient organs rarely fossilize, so paleontologists were stunned to find the incredibly well-preserved remains of a lung that belonged to bird from the dinosaur age, a new study finds.

A persistent myth about milk — that drinking it can lead to the production of more gooey mucus in your body's airways — is completely false, a new review finds.

It really did go down the wrong pipe.

Tuberculosis is both deadly and difficult to test for. But a new paper suggests rats might make the illness easier to sniff out.

Finally, some good news about airplane travel.

Health officials don't know what's behind this cluster of cases.

A liposuction procedure turned nearly deadly for a 45-year-old woman in England, according to a new report of her case.

Most fish would be left high and dry during arid drought periods when bodies of water shrink and disappear — but African lungfish aren't most fish.

Some emergency-medicine doctors want to banish the phrase "dry drowning" because the term doesn't actually refer to any medically accepted conditions.

After a person quits smoking, the lungs can heal to a certain extent.

An elderly woman in Florida had oil in her lungs for decades from a now-outdated procedure she received to treat tuberculosis.

Colds and the flu may take a bigger toll on women than men, according to a new study based on people's reports of their own symptoms.

An elderly woman in Seattle died from an infection that she appears to have contracted from a horse she rode, according to a new report.