We inhale and exhale all day, every day, without thinking about it—but when we cultivate awareness of our breath, something ...

Breathwork can ease stress and alter immune markers. Can it also prevent infections during the winter virus season?

Box breathing is one of the better breathing exercises for stress relief, as you can do it anytime, but it's commonly done at ...

Takanori Takebe is on a mission to find out if people can breathe through their butts. As a medical doctor and stem cell biologist, Takebe spends most of his time trying to develop lab-made livers to ...

Lisa Emery loves to talk about her "boys." With each word, the respiratory therapist's face softens and shines with pride. But keep her talking, and it doesn't take long for that passion to switch to ...

OAK HILL, W.Va. (AP) — Lisa Emery loves to talk about her “boys.” With each word, the respiratory therapist’s face softens and shines with pride. But keep her talking, and it doesn’t take long for ...

The American Lung Association, with WGN Radio, shines a light on three remarkable Chicago women leaders at the Breath of Motherhood Awards Dinner, presented by UChicago Medicine, at the Ivy Room on ...

Get a breath of this not-so-fresh air. Japanese and US researchers have developed a groundbreaking treatment for people who can’t breathe through their lungs — by delivering oxygen where the sun doesn ...

A new study shows that a deep sigh can make breathing easier by resetting the lung’s inner lining. The effect comes from physics as much as biology, as each sigh briefly reorganizes the microscopic ...

More than half of all premature babies born before the 28th week of pregnancy develop respiratory distress syndrome shortly after birth. As their lungs are not yet fully developed, they produce too ...