Lung Therapeutics has raised a $36 million series C round to take a treatment for a serious complication of pneumonia through phase 2 studies. Texas-based Lung Therapeutics is built on the research of ...

Intrapleural enzyme therapy (IET) improves outcomes in adult inpatients with complicated parapneumonic pleural effusion or empyema.

IT is the unfortunate lot of some patients dying of metastatic cancer of the breast, lung, cervix and so forth to be plagued by severe dyspnea due to recurrent malignant pleural effusions. Many of ...

Lung cancer patients are particularly susceptible to malignant pleural effusion, when fluid collects in the space between the lungs and the chest wall. Researchers have discovered a novel mechanism ...

Dear Dr. Donohue — I had a little trouble breathing, so I saw my doctor, who ordered a chest X-ray. It showed fluid on the right lung. The doctor said he would have to do more tests to find out why ...

A 66-year-old woman presented for evaluation after developing effusion around her left lung. She had been diagnosed previously with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer, which was treated. The ...

The FDA has cleared Becton Dickinson’s catheter system for the treatment of non-malignant, recurrent causes of pleural effusion, or the collection of fluid next to the lungs. This clearance expanded ...

The effect of food on and the intra-subject variability of the pharmacokinetics of ZD6474, a novel antiangiogenic agent, in healthy subjects No significant financial relationships to disclose. This is ...

Pleural diseases affect the pleural tissue that lines the inside of the chest cavity and covers the outside of the lungs. The visceral pleura (which covers the lung) and the parietal pleura (which ...

EFFUSION into the general pleural cavity is a frequent manifestation of congestive heart failure. On the other hand, pleural effusion localized in an interlobar space is not a common finding, since ...