Humans have lots of basic requirements that need to be met in order to stay alive. Food is a necessary one, though it’s ...

Perfluorocarbons (PFCs) have long been used in medicine and research due to their unique properties. They can hold large ...

The main problem that premature babies have is that their lungs are not well formed. In order to alleviate this situation, the Nautical School at the University of the Basque Country has developed a ...

In the mid-1990s, pediatric critical care doctors at UB developed a revolutionary technique called partial liquid ventilation (PLV) to treat respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), a common, often fatal ...

The present study was approved by the Animal Care Committee of the government agencies of Baden-Württemberg. Meconium was obtained from healthy human infants less than 24 h old, pooled, homogenized, ...

Breathe it in – the air around you is roughly 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% argon. During your lifetime, you'll inhale and exhale this life-giving mixture 672,768,000 times. Give the air around you ...

PARIS – Orixha SAS raised $2.25 million to bolster development of its Vent2cool medical device, pulmonary ventilation technology used in critical care settings. Investment company Erganeo SAS, the ...

In a dramatic effort to save a premature baby, doctors in Philadelphia recently put an oxygen-carrying liquid into the baby’s lungs to give them a rest from breathing air. Although the baby died 19 ...

To live we need to breathe. Prior to being born we carry this activity out through the placenta and subsequently by means of our lungs. In normal development, the lungs of the foetus are filled with ...