*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. One in four children in the U.S. who need lung transplants is on the waiting list at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, one of the ...
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Children's lung development in urban Los Angeles has markedly improved due to better air quality, according to a decades-long study released Wednesday. While previous groups of kids tested were found ...
Worrying lung abnormalities have been detected in youngsters with long COVID. An advanced type of MRI scan uncovered "significant" problems - including reduced blood flow - in the lungs of children ...
Cameron Witsman may not seem like a typical 13-year-old boy. He'd rather be outdoors riding his bicycle, going on a hike or playing basketball than glued to a phone or playing video games. That ...
Diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension at age 9, his heart and lungs were failing, and a heart-lung transplant seemed to be his only real hope for survival. Oswaldo was referred to doctors at ...
As air pollution in Stockholm has decreased, so has the lung capacity of children and adolescents has improved, a new study reports. The researchers consider the results important, since the lung ...
(Reuters Health) - Doctors have long predicted that less air pollution will produce healthier lungs. Now a first-of-its-kind study of 2,120 children in southern California has documented dramatically ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who are breast fed for at least 4 months may have better lung function than children who are breast fed for shorter periods of time and children who are bottle fed ...
Mar. 23 -- FRIDAY, Nov. 30 (HealthDay News) -- The common pain reliever and anti-inflammatory ibuprofen significantly slows the decline in lung function seen in children with cystic fibrosis, U.S.
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is an infection that affects your lungs, nose, throat, and breathing passages. You get it when infected droplets enter your nose, eyes, or mouth. This might happen ...