Amber Valletta

Without the EPA and the national pollution safeguards it enforces, more children would have asthma. Our water would be less safe. More chemicals would poison our bodies. And more people would die prematurely from respiratory diseases and heart attacks.

American Model

David Quammen

Ebola isn't a respiratory virus. It doesn't spread through the airborne route. So it's not likely to spread like wildfire around the world and kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. That's what I think of as the next big one.

American Scientist

Julian Castro

We have a responsibility to protect public housing residents from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke, especially the elderly and children who suffer from asthma and other respiratory diseases.

American Politician

Norman Swan

You see, your nose is the respiratory front line. It's the warning beacon that invaders have overwhelmed your first response defenders.

Australian Journalist

Jaggi Vasudev

Trees are our closest relatives. What trees exhale, we inhale; what we exhale, they inhale. They are half our respiratory system.

Indian Author

Charles Duhigg

Millions of people with respiratory diseases have relied on oxygen equipment, delivered to their homes, to help them breathe.

American Journalist

Scott Gottlieb

Limiting Covid's impact requires us to think differently about confronting respiratory pathogens in the winter.

American Public Servant

Emmanuel Sanders

I can't put my family at risk. My son already has a respiratory problem. He has asthma.

American Athlete

Alan Jay Lerner

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

American Dramatist

Allen Klein

Laughing is also good for your respiratory system.

American Author

Used mainly in medical or health-related discussions to describe issues involving the lungs and breathing.

Medical Context

Refers specifically to the 'respiratory system,' the group of organs responsible for breathing.

System Specific

Commonly used with 'infection' or 'illness' to talk about diseases affecting breathing.

Illness Related

 This is the reason organisms can't be simply sparked back to life once they've already died. We can pump air into someone's lungs, but it won't do much good if the many other processes involved in the respiratory cycle are no longer functioning. Similarly, the electric shock from a defibrillator

At what moment are you...

 and affects the world around us. And yet, turbulence is ubiquitous, springing up in virtually any system that has moving fluids. That includes the airflow in your respiratory tract. The blood moving through your arteries. And the coffee in your cup, as you stir it.

Turbulence: One of the...

 I was called down to the ward to see him. His is the little hand. I was called down to the ward to see him by a respiratory physician. He said, "Look, there's a guy down here. He's got pneumonia, and he looks like he needs intensive care.

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 But mechanical ventilators take over the process, getting oxygen into the body when the respiratory system cannot. These machines can bypass constricted airways, and deliver highly oxygenated air to help damaged lungs diffuse more oxygen.

How do ventilators work?...

 where we'd simulate what needed to be done. We hardly did anything, and so now here we have a respiratory virus that is, sadly, fulfilling some of the more negative predictions I made. Last month, you said that this might be the big one.

How we must respond to...

 Systems come in The respiratory system is a group of passageways and organs that extracts life-giving oxygen from the air we breathe Air enters the body through nasal cavities travels down the throat and is then transported to the lung

Human Body 101 PIPE...

 Consider this unfortunately familiar scenario. Several months ago a highly infectious, sometimes deadly respiratory virus infected humans for the first time. It then proliferated faster than public health measures could contain it.

When is a pandemic over?

 never wakes and few clues are left as to the reason many tribal people believe that snake coils up on the chest of the victim then sucks their breath away as simple as in a way accurate descriptions of respiratory failure

How an Indian Krait...

 and respiratory syncytial virus, or all leading causes of hospitalization and death in the elderly. And we're hoping that this will then be an annual booster, that you will get, just like the flu vaccine.

How mRNA Medicine Will...

 virus to a blood-borne virus to a respiratory virus which is our greatest fear and then when a Qualtrough contracted the disease and then we kill her off in the first frame of the movie

Respiratory