Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Reporting in the journal Med, surgeons describe how they ...

Currently, to ensure that these types of therapies work effectively, there is extensive research that focuses on finding ways of evading the immune system, in other words, so that the lungs cannot ...

Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago were able to keep a critically ill patient alive for 48 hours after removing both of his lungs, the hospital reported last week. The patient, a 33-year-old ...

Traferox Technologies, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Premarket Approval ...

The team's total artificial lung system, or TAL, bought the man precious time until a double lung transplant was viable. Reading time 3 minutes Our lungs are crucial for every breath of life we take.

The organ transplantation field has seen many advancements over the years, with lung transplant rates showing an upward trend. Consider the statistics. Since 2011, there has been a 148.3% increase in ...

Doctors at Baylor College of Medicine have confirmed that the use of the portable Organ Care System (OCS), or "breathing lung" technology, boosts long-term survival for transplant patients. This ...

Scientists have made a key breakthrough in treating respiratory diseases by developing a new drug delivery system that transports genetic therapies directly to the lungs, opening promising ...

Study: Bridge to transplant using a flow-adaptive extracorporeal total artificial lung system following bilateral pneumonectomy. Image Credit: AbirArt007 / Shutterstock.com A recent case report ...