In A Nutshell A handheld breath sensor read eight chemicals and flagged lung cancer risk in a 67-person study. Accuracy was 85.71% using the device alone and 92.86% when paired with GC–MS in analysis.

Lung sounds are the noises a person makes as they breathe in and out, including sounds of regular breathing. However, wheezing, crackling, stridor, and other sounds can also occur, indicating an ...

Chest auscultation has long been considered a useful part of the physical examination, going back to the time of Hippocrates. However, it did not become a widespread practice until the invention of ...

Over the next couple of months, researchers at the Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Science (IISc) will collaborate with hospitals, nodal and district health centres across India to develop a ...

Early signs that lung cancer may spread and become untreatable can be seen in samples of a patient’s blood and tumour, new research has suggested. A trio of studies indicate which patients could be ...