Two years later, he's alive and well.

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When the infection is so severe that the lungs are melting, they’re irrecoverably damaged," said thoracic surgeon Ankit Bharat.

Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours.

For two days, the patient lived as a human being with no lungs, stabilized by a machine that breathed and buffered his ...

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The female hormone progesterone, which is found in most hormone-based birth control, can expedite the healing process for lung cells harmed by an influenza infection, according to a new study ...

The procedure, led by Dr Ankit Bharat, thoracic surgeon at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, ...