Michigan residents may notice a higher-than-normal number of dead fish washing ashore from this season's winterkill.

High cholesterol, or hypercholesterolemia, usually has no apparent symptoms and is therefore labeled as a "silent killer." Yet some of its symptoms show up when performing physical exertion such as ...

A team of scientists have elucidated an ancient mechanism of cellular respiration. To that end, they studied bacteria that feed on the gases carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and turn them into acetic acid ...

Animals, plants and many other living organisms inhale oxygen to "burn" (oxidize) compounds like sugar into CO2 and water—a ...

The prevalence of respiratory disorders is rising due to factors such as air pollution, smoking, and an aging population. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), COPD is projected to become ...

Four people have been charged in the death of a 5-year-old boy who was killed inside a pressurized oxygen chamber at a ...

Overuse of oxygen is more common than underuse among hospital inpatients at risk for hypercapnia, according to study findings published in Respiratory Medicine.

Living with a heart that struggles to pump effectively creates daily challenges for millions of Americans. Systolic heart ...

Pope Francis' continued "gradual, slight improvement" is a sign that he is responding to the therapy he is receiving at ...

In engineering problems, the Euler-Lagrange method is not practical for tracking a large number of particles through a flow field. Euler-Euler derived the governing equations for two phases (momentum ...

and that it was encouraging he was able to breathe part of the day with just a nasal tube of high-flow oxygen. But he said that his condition certainly was “a precarious, touch and go kind of ...