Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Smaller airway structures among women were associated with increased risk for chronic lung diseases including ...

A computational study shows for the first time how different parts of the human airway experience levels of pressure and ...

Airway segmentation is a critical component in medical imaging that involves the delineation of the bronchial tree from computed tomography (CT) scans. This process facilitates a more precise ...

Sex differences in airway size are not innate, but likely develop because of hormonal changes around puberty, reports a new study by the University of Waterloo. Smaller airways can lead to the ...

Infants born preterm have significantly lower nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal volumes, compared with newborn peers carried to full term, and those lower airway volumes are independent of the infants' ...

Occipital meningomyeloceles are rare and challenging conditions for the anaesthesiologist, mainly because of the difficulty ...

Scientists have found the secret to felines' finesse at sniffing out food, friends and foes. A complex collection of tightly coiled bony airway structures gets the credit, according to the first ...

The pauses in breathing can last a few seconds or minutes, and typically end with a snort or a choking sound. There are three main types of sleep apnea. As the name suggests, obstructive sleep apnea ...