March 2, 2017 at 8:35 PM For patients affected by lung diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic...

Doctors typically rush to complete a transplant within about six hours of the lungs being taken from a donor, with time being of the...

Researchers at the University of Michigan have transplanted lab-grown mini lungs into immunosuppressed mice where the structures were...

Recent lung transplant recipients will spend recovery holding their breath after UPMC researchers linked a common complication with a...

Transplant surgeons at UT Southwestern Medical Center have performed the first lung transplant in Texas using donated lungs treated with...

High-volume lung transplant centers have lower transplantation costs and their patients are less likely to be readmitted within 30 days...

Organ transplant patient Michele Coleman receives a follow-up exam a few months after surgeons at Washington University School of...

One in four children in the U.S. who need lung transplants is on the waiting list at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, one of the few...

Twenty-five years after her lung transplant, Pam Smith makes the annual 200-mile trip from her home in Athens, Tenn., to Vanderbilt...

FOX 35 News at 10 p.m. ORLANDO, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) – Jordan McCaskill says she’s looking forward to getting back to a more normal life...

Broader geographic sharing of pediatric donor lungs could result in twice as many lung transplants for young patients in the U.S.,...

Monday, Nov. 2, 2015, Cleveland: Broader geographic sharing of pediatric donor lungs could result in twice as many lung transplants for...

By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Living near busy roads with high levels of air pollution...

Our bodies have developed a particularly unforgiving immune response when a threat is posed to our lungs. This is great for warding off...

DESTIN — Little Cayden Alexander Guercio is a fighter. His Gaelic name, which means “a great fighter” even reflects that. Born to Dennis...

Lung transplants – a treatment of last resort for end-stage lung disease – have given thousands of patients a second lease on life. But...

Life gets turned upside down when you’re hit by a life-threatening disease. Usually, everything else gets put on hold. But a teenage girl...

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – With the goal of developing a novel molecular diagnostic assay to aid in the lung transplantation process,...

Heart-lung transplant man marks 30 years 20 July 2015 From the section London Andrew Whitby: “My life has been improved beyond measure” A...

Myles Lynch runs with an easy, loping gait—his legs churning, his lungs pumping oxygen. He holds the Pan Am flame high and proud, but...