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Older adults are much more likely to become seriously ill from flu or COVID because aging lung cells can drive excessive immune responses, according to a new study led by researchers at UC San ...

Older adults are much more likely to become seriously ill from flu or COVID because aging lung cells can drive excessive immune responses, according to a new study led by researchers at UC San ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- By now you have heard about the huge demand for ventilators to help patients infected with COVID-19. But why are they needed and how are they used? That's the question we posed to Dr.

Why are the elderly so much more likely to get sick and hospitalized for pneumonia and COVID? UCSF scientists found that old ...

A new study reveals that aging lungs may play a major role in why flu and COVID can become so dangerous for older adults.

Ageing lung tissue, rather than age alone, may be a central reason influenza and COVID-19 become far more dangerous for older adults, according to a newly published study that found structural cells ...

Aging lungs may be sabotaging themselves—fueling runaway inflammation that turns mild infections into life-threatening illness.

In a US study of patients without cardiac arrest who required prehospital intubation, rapid sequence intubation (RSI), involving the use of a sedative and paralytic, was associated with increased odds ...