The lungs develop during this part of pregnancy, so it’s common for babies with PPHN to have other breathing conditions too. PPHN is also known as persistent pulmonary hypertension in the ...

Even with built-in blood vessels, these lung organoids currently resemble fetal-stage human lungs. To make these mini-lungs ...

Transient tachypnea of the newborn (TTN) is when a baby has rapid breathing soon after birth. Learn about the treatment and causes of rapid breathing.

Like one out of every 15 U.S. babies, this one was premature, and the greater the degree of prematurity, the greater the danger that a baby’s lungs will not inflate properly.

Chest congestion in babies is a common problem that\\'s usually harmless though it can make breathing difficult, making babies irritable. Blocked nose, flared nostrils, and wheezing, are a few ...

During development in the womb, a baby’s lungs contain fluid. As the baby reaches full term, their body starts to absorb the fluid so that their lungs can prepare to breathe air after birth.

Latallia Reynolds had an easy pregnancy up to 18 weeks when during a routine ultrasound doctors found a mass in her baby’s lung that was pressing against the baby’s heart and other lung. “It ...

A blood test can help predict which preterm babies will go onto develop chronic lung disease, allowing for earlier diagnosis and more targeted treatments, according to a new study.

A young singer has Children's Hospital New Orleans to thank for saving his lungs"The thing about theater, it's also really good because you learn all the social and life skills in theater," said ...

In the mid-1990s, pediatric critical care doctors at UB developed a revolutionary technique called partial liquid ventilation (PLV) to treat respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), a common, often fatal ...