During the first half of the twentieth century, several great innovations designed to treat respiratory failure were developed. The emerging fields of bioengineering and biomaterials developed devices to assist in medicine and therapy. One of the...

In animal physiology, respiration is the transport of oxygen from the ambient air to the tissue cells and the transport of carbon dioxide in the opposite direction. This is in contrast to the biochemical definition of respiration, which refers to...

The plant growth regulators (PGRs) 2,4-D [(2,4-dichlorophenoxy) acetic acid] and malic hydrazide (1,2-dyhydro-3,6-pyridazinedione) have been shown to reduce plant respiration. The effect of other PGRs such as trinexapac-ethyl [(4-cyclopropyl-[alpha]-hydroxy-methylene)-3,5-dioxocyclohexanecarboxylic acid methyl ester] on respiration is unknown. Experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of...

Every five seconds the bedside bellows fill the lungs with fresh air through a tube in the neck. Twelve times a minute the chest rises and falls. And every 10 minutes, says Alexandria Hospital pulmonologist Thomas Smirniotopoulos, "we give them a sigh." It's...

An Italian judge rejected a paralyzed man's request to be removed from a respirator Saturday, ruling that the law does not permit the denial of lifesaving care and urging lawmakers to confront the issue.Piergiorgio Welby, whose body has been devastated by muscular dystrophy, had pleaded...

Italian prosecutors on Tuesday cleared a physician who disconnected the respirator of a paralyzed man who had sought to die, in a victory for supporters of the right-to-die campaign in the Roman Catholic nation, a patients advocate group said.In December, Dr. Mario Riccio assisted in...