Five years on, scientists are starting to understand how the virus can lead to long-term, sometimes invisible changes.

Early infection caused extensive inflammation in many different body systems, noted Dr. Scott Scheinin, MD, director of lung transplantation for Mount Sinai Health System in New York City.

That’s why doctors mostly use chemotherapy to treat metastatic lung cancer. It destroys cancerous cells everywhere in your body. Surgery is less common. Doctors use it if the tumors are only in ...

“We think these HSCs could be a reservoir of hematopoiesis in a particular organ, in this case the lung, that gets activated whenever the body needs more of any part of the blood, whether it’s ...

PRESENTER:You can see that his heart is pumping hard. His lungs are working hard to supply his body with oxygen, and his heart is beating quickly to send the oxygen around his body, in his blood ...

Children and teens with long COVID appear to have significantly reduced blood flow through their lungs, researchers reported ... distributed throughout the body via the bloodstream, researchers ...