While the Presidential Fitness Test may be aimed at school-age students, fitness experts say Americans should still be able ...

A new clinical classification scheme is presented, entitled “Acute Pulmonary Embolism Clinical Categories,” with 5 categories (A-E) and subcategories, ranging from low to high risk for adverse ...

Background Patients undergoing thoracoscopic pulmonary resection are prone to moderate-to-severe acute postoperative pain, ...

Pulmonary assessment combines history-taking with physical examination maneuvers—inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation—to evaluate lung health and function. Observing breathing patterns, ...

Forty-three cardiology and electrophysiology codes — spanning catheter ablations, coronary revascularization procedures, electrophysiologic evaluations, heart failure management techniques and ...

Function Health, a startup focused on lab testing and body scans for early disease detection, announced Wednesday it has acquired mobile healthcare company Getlabs. Function, which launched in ...

Credit: Getty Images A pulmonologist discusses the history and influence of race-based reference equations in pulmonary function testing interpretation and patient care. Pulmonary function testing ...

The Social Security Administration has requested the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to review the latest published research and science and produce a report addressing best ...

Pulmonary function tests (PFTs), also called lung function tests, are some of the most important, but least understood, tools healthcare providers use to evaluate lung health. Though many people have ...

The start-up Function will send practically anyone to a lab for extensive medical testing, no physical required. Is that a good thing? By Kristen V. Brown As Kimberly Crisp approached middle age, ...