When lungs fail to maintain vital oxygen and carbon dioxide levels, respiratory failure occurs, posing a serious threat. This ...

Olivia Attwood has stunned fans as she posed for a picture with her bare, red and bleeding skin on display while having a cosmetic procedure before Christmas. The reality star and presenter, 34, took ...

10:31, Fri, Dec 5, 2025 Updated: 10:36, Fri, Dec 5, 2025 Medical professionals are earnestly investigating whether humans can absorb oxygen through their bottoms. Scientists at Cincinnati Children's ...

If you’ve been following strange-but-true medical news lately, you may have come across this eyebrow-raising idea: breathing through the butt. It sounds like a joke you’d hear on the internet, but ...

Traditional owners in Western Australia's north have launched legal action against the state government claiming it is fast-tracking mining and exploration projects at cultural expense. Under the ...

During what began as a simple dental procedure, a sick koala suddenly stopped breathing, sending the veterinary team into a race against time. Every second counted as they fought to save the beloved ...

Takanori Takebe is on a mission to find out if people can breathe through their butts. As a medical doctor and stem cell biologist, Takebe spends most of his time trying to develop lab-made livers to ...

Southwest Airlines is gearing up to introduce assigned seating in just over two months. The low-cost carrier will say goodbye to its polarizing open seating policy on January 27, 2026, when travelers ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is among the most common lung diseases in the world. According to the World Health Organization, the lung disease is the fourth leading cause of death ...

Here’s one type of breathing that you could eventually get behind, so to speak—a way to essentially breathe through your butt. It would involve squirting an oxygen-carrying liquid up your butt to then ...

As emergency medicine has emerged as a distinct medical discipline, there has been a shift in responsibility for a key task in emergency departments: managing emergency airways to help patients get ...

Last year, a group of researchers won the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize in Physiology for discovering that many mammals are capable of breathing through their anus. But as with many Ig Nobel awards, there is a ...