Mucus has an "important role in helping to smell, reproduce and have proper gut health, but it also plays an important role in how drugs are absorbed in the body," said Northeastern Global News.

Most of us would rather not dwell for too long on the subject of mucus. We know it is there, quietly lubricating our insides and presumably doing vital work. It is only when we have a cold that we ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Stormont Vail Health announced that it has introduced the Ion robotic-assisted bronchoscopy platform from Intuitive. According to a press release from Stormont Vail Health ...

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Like many technologies, robotic-assisted bronchoscopy came with its considerations, such as managing the cost of goods sold and reliability, which are challenging on a particular schedule.

Notably, patients whose mucus plugs were present during the initial screening, but resolved by the follow-up, showed no difference in lung function decline compared to those without mucus plugs at ...

People with COPD who had persistent airway-clogging mucus plugs over a five-year period had a faster decline in lung function than those who didn’t have the plugs.

The thing that makes mussel glue so tough and the thing that makes mucus so resilient are one and the same: the chemical bonds between their proteins, known as catechols and thiols.

Post-nasal drip, a common condition where excess mucus accumulates in the back of the throat or nose, can cause discomfort and various symptoms, including coughing, throat-clearing, and stomach upset.

Results: This study included 242 individuals. Out of the 151 subjects who underwent bronchoscopy, 62.9% were classified in the mucus plug group and 37.1% in the control group. The subjects with ...

Preliminary data from researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center deemed Medtronic’s method as noninferior compared to CT-guided biopsy, with similar rates of lung disease diagnoses ...

Most women during pregnancy develop a mucus plug in the cervical canal. Learn signs of labor, what a show is, what a mucus plug is, and what it might mean if you lose it.