Oxygen goes in, carbon dioxide goes out. Sounds simple enough, but your respiratory system — composed of your lungs, trachea, sinuses, and sundry microscopic helpers — works a grueling 24/7 job just ...

On average, we breath around 20 times per minute, every minute and every hour, day, week, month and year of our lives. It is one of the first things we do immediately after birth and one of the last ...

The human respiratory system, extending from the nasal cavity to the lungs, harbors diverse microbial communities composed of ...

In just over two years, multiple SARs-COV-2 variants have emerged, affecting our lives in the most grievous ways. We have battled three coronavirus waves and are still recovering from the impact of ...

Lungs are remarkable organs that continuously achieve amazing feats, which they do so well that we take them for granted, except when their function is diminished. It all happens in a space inside ...

Normal changes to the respiratory and urinary systems during pregnancy, along with associated common pathologies and complications, are explored in the second article in our pregnancy series. This is ...

A research team at the LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), has developed a novel live-attenuated vaccine candidate, cb1, capable of generating broad immunity against a wide ...