CHICAGO (WLS) -- For the first time, surgeons in Chicago used breast implants and an artificial lung to save a young man's life. The longtime smoker, and vaper, needed the transplant after getting ...

Davey Bauer's lung infection was too life-threatening for a standard transplant. If doctors replaced his lungs with healthy ones right away, Bauer wouldn't survive the surgery. In April, shortly after ...

A Missouri man's lung transplant odyssey at Northwestern Medicine required the use of an artificial lung and breast implants to save his life after years of smoking and then later vaping, a first for ...

TORONTO, April 6 (Reuters) - Younger Canadians are bearing the brunt of the nation's latest COVID-19 surge, creating growing demand for artificial lungs and a struggle to maintain staffing in critical ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted our lives, claiming nearly 7.1 million lives globally. Scientists and medical professionals have been working tirelessly to understand the virus, its ...

A team of Princeton University researchers recently elucidated the mechanisms involved in lung development using brown anole lizards as a model organism. Their developments represent a huge step ...

Among the latest artificial intelligence innovations in health care, a routine chest X-ray could help identify non-smokers who are at a high risk for lung cancer. The study findings will be presented ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Two U.S. teams have taken major strides in developing lab-engineered lung tissue that could be used for future transplants or testing the effects of new drugs. In one study, a team ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - There are more lung cancer deaths in the United States than breast cancer, colon cancer, and prostate cancer combined. The problem is that most lung cancers are caught so late ...