How slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory…

I would not have lasted a minute, literally a minute, on this Earth without God and angels by my side, because I was born.…

— Mattie Stepanek

Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response…

— Steve Allen

Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very…

— George C. Williams

Cot-death is no longer a problem of clinical medicine, but is one of medical politics. We have long had the knowledge and experience as…

— Irwin Stone

When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment…

— Bill Bryson

People from the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles are starting to return home today. A natural gas well leak in the neighborhood has…

— Ari Shapiro

One third of all of our cancers are from tobacco. It's one of the big killers in America and more than half of our…

— Richard Jackson

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

— Scott Gottlieb

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…

— David Quammen

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

— Charles Duhigg

Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the respiratory chain appears now…

— Peter D. Mitchell

I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a…

— Rodney Atkins

First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin…

— Barton Gellman

“I switched from the surgical masks to the KN95 masks and found that I had an irritated and sore throat. I have stopped wearing…

— Steven Magee

Bad dental hygiene can lead to respiratory infections and an increased risk for heart disease and strokes.

— Mallory Ortberg