Doctors in Japan have performed the world’s first-ever living donor lung transplant on a patient with severe lung damage from Covid-19. A Japanese woman’s life was saved by the nearly 11-hour operation carried out by a medical team of 30 after her husband and son donated parts of their lungs, doctors said on Thursday. The … Read more
First invented in the 1980s by Chuck Hull, an engineer and physicist, 3D printing technology – also called additive manufacturing – is the process of making an object by depositing material, one layer at a time. Similarly to how an inkjet printer adds individual dots of ink to form an image, a 3D printer adds … Read more
A Wisconsin mother received a life-saving double lung transplant after a four-month-long battle with the novel coronavirus. Carmen Lerma, 52, a director at United Migrant Opportunity Services, in Milwaukee, tested positive for COVID-19 in July. Her health quickly deteriorated and she was admitted to the hospital, spending 45 days in the intensive care unit on … Read more
Disabled councillor with blue badge for lung condition defends TikTok video showing him dancing and doing Michael Jackson-style moonwalk as ‘a bit of fun’ because ‘the air was good’ Lee Jeavons, former deputy leader of Walsall Council, was seen in TikTok videos Another showed him dancing to the Men In Black soundtrack in a car … Read more
Wisconsin mother, 52, is fighting for her life as she waits for a DOUBLE lung transplant after spending 45 days on a ventilator as she says ‘this coronavirus attacked me in every way possible’ Carmen Lerma, 52, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was diagnosed with coronavirus in mid-July She was admitted to Ascension St. Francis hospital shortly … Read more
Nearly two-thirds of coronavirus hospital patients are still suffering organ damage months after being discharged, a small study has warned. Oxford University researchers found 60 per cent of patients had scarring or inflammation in their lungs three months after beating the virus. MRI scans showed 30 per cent had lasting damage to their kidney, 26 … Read more
An easyJet passenger with lung damage was hauled off a flight for not wearing a face mask as staff allegedly refused to accept his medical exemption without certification. Brian Spinks, from Falkirk, Scotland, boarded a flight from Luton to Edinburgh on Tuesday but was asked to leave the flight despite having a medical condition. The … Read more
Coronavirus patients who have been treated in hospital still suffer lung damage up to THREE MONTHS after returning home, study find Most coronavirus patients’ conditions improve within six weeks but some do not Austrian researchers tested coronavirus patients after they had left hospital More than half of those returning six weeks after discharge still had a … Read more
The British chemical giant Imperial Chemical Industries is facing legal action after the family of a worker who died from terminal lung cancer claimed he was exposed to asbestos over a 34-year period. Christopher Lees, 79, who was an in-house healthy safety inspector at the company’s research plants, was unaware he was exposed to what he believes … Read more
Death rates from lung cancer have been declining sharply in the US due to recent advances in treatments, a new study suggests. Researchers found that fatality rates for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the most common lung cancer, have fallen by about 4.5 percent percent from 2001 through 2016. Additionally, the rate of cases of … Read more