MANHATTAN, New York (WABC) -- A medical breakthrough took place in New York City, after a patient received the first robotic double lung transplant in the world. As a self-proclaimed adrenaline junkie ...

A team of four surgeons in the Duke Lung Transplant Program successfully performed a robotic bilateral lung transplant June 30, making Duke the first medical institution in the Southeast and the ...

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NEW CASTLE, Del. (WPVI) -- Lung disease can leave someone feeling like an outsider, unable to take part in everyday family life. But after a lung transplant, a New Castle man is back doing what he ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The medical world is celebrating two innovative technologies Northwestern Medicine is using to help give patients a new chance at life, called "lungs in the fridge" and "lungs in a ...

Doug Akagi, celebrating 12 years since his life-saving double lung transplant. When Doug Akagi was just 31 years old, he started to notice some troubling symptoms. He couldn’t seem to catch his breath ...

Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) is a treatment for end-stage lung disease caused by emphysema. Emphysema is a type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that causes shortness of breath ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Northwestern Medicine is celebrating a milestone after performing a record number of lung transplants using new technology known as "lungs in a box." The procedure allows surgeons to ...

Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body—although briefly—for the first time. The lung survived for nine days, marking ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --A University of Chicago police captain with two new lungs is sharing his story for National Police Week. Capt. Arthur Gillespie was the first patient at Northwestern Medicine to have a ...

Former UFC fighter and NCAA national champion wrestler Ben Askren revealed that he is back in the hospital due to concerns of a potential infection following his recent double lung transplant surgery.

Katie Mitchell, the UK’s longest-surviving heart and lung transplant recipient, has described how she was given the "gift of ...