Children who experience cardiac arrest are one and a half times more likely to survive at a hospital capable of providing the life support system called ECMO, research suggests. But the reason behind better outcomes may have less to do with being saved by the heart and lung support machine itself and more to do with the care team structure at hospitals capable of ECM0, suggests the findings in Resuscitation.

Nearly half of parents in a national poll felt confident they’d know if their child used e-cigarettes. An expert offers four steps to identify and address vaping at home

ECMO life support can save the lives of about half of the critically ill COVID-19 patients who are placed on it by their ICU teams.

Survival rates for COVID-19 patients on ECMO life support is similar to that for other ARDS causes, a new study finds.

U-M led research is exploring more about blood clots in hopes to discover potential alternative options for blood thinners as treatment.

Vaping and e-cigarettes have quickly become popular among teens today, but pulmonary expert, Wassim Walid Labaki, M.D., warns that vaping won’t mitigate risks to your health, and could be responsible for creating them.

Interventional pulmonology, a relatively new medical subspecialty, is changing the way doctors diagnose and treat lung and airway conditions, including lung cancer.

Catching one’s breath after mild or no activity could be a sign of a rare but serious condition affecting the body’s ability to circulate oxygenated blood to the heart.