The most effective treatments for shifting sticky mucus from the airways are simple ones: saline nose sprays and washes, ...

Some people who have long-term conditions, such as chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis, have to cough frequently. This is because the lung’s cilia – tiny hair-like structures that move mucus, debris ...

A month before her 21st birthday, Amy Clark was given the earth-shattering news that she had stage four lung cancer. It was a moment Amy, now 26, describes as: “Like having an out-of-body ...

A persistent cough can be embarrassing, especially if people think you have COVID.Author David King Senior Lecturer in General Practice, The ...

A persistent cough can be embarrassing, especially if people think you have COVID. Coughing frequently can also make you ...

In the UK, the London Major Trauma Network guideline for the management of elderly trauma patients recommends CT as the investigation of choice in chest wall injury in the elderly due to the high rate ...

“It wasn’t too long. Could’ve been worse.” Fitzgerald suffered a left rib fracture on April 25 against the Texas Rangers after he dove for a ball, describing the play as “really awkward ...

Staff conducted a series of tests and found the boy had four ribs on his right side that had healed from fractures ... he pressed down on the boy’s chest and when he did so, the boy’s face ...

multiple fractures and injuries to her spine (cervical, thoracic and lumbar), multiple rib fractures, ongoing spinal cord injuries and physician and emotional distress. Berret, too, says the ...

Introduction It is well-recognised that the detection of rib fractures is unreliable using chest radiograph. The aim of this systematic review was to investigate whether the use of lung ultrasound is ...