If you're experiencing stress and tension or pain in your neck and shoulders, it might have to do with your breathing. Find ...

Johns Hopkins students have devised a better way to close up the chest cavity after open-heart surgery. What surprised me the most about this news is that for a half-century, this is what we've been ...

Your diaphragm is a thin muscle that separates your chest and abdomen. When you inhale, your diaphragm tightens and expands your chest cavity. A paralyzed diaphragm doesn’t tighten as it should when ...

Scalpel. Check. Sponge. Check. Fire extinguisher...check?When you think about the risks of surgery, "fire" usually doesn't come to mind. But that's what happened to a man in Australia who experienced ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. When it ...

A pulmonary bleb is a small collection of air between the lung and the outer surface of the lung (visceral pleura) usually found in the upper lobe of the lung. When a bleb ruptures the air escapes ...

A fire raged through the chest cavity of a man during heart surgery in a rare incident, according to doctors. Surgeons were performing emergency heart surgery on an unnamed 60-year-old patient, when ...

At this year's Euroanaesthesia Congress (the annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology) in Vienna, Austria (1-3 June), doctors present the unique case of a man who suffered a flash ...

Survival meta-analysis from fifteen years of a standard systemic therapy in malignant pleural mesothelioma. The combined treatment of 150 kHz tumor treating fields (TTFields) and cisplatin or ...

Thoracic endometriosis is endometriosis that grows in the lungs or chest. It is an uncommon complication of this disease. Because it is rare, thoracic endometriosis is often misdiagnosed or diagnosed ...

At this year's Euroanaesthesia Congress (the annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology) in Vienna, Austria (1-3 June), doctors present the unique case of a man who suffered a flash ...