"My breathing has improved 100%,” Cheryl Mehrkar tells PEOPLE following the groundbreaking procedure Vanessa Etienne is a Staff Writer for PEOPLE on the Health team. She joined the brand in 2021.

Today at the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) 46th Annual meeting and Scientific Sessions, ...

Surgeons and teams with Vanderbilt Lung Transplant performed 99 lung transplants in 2024, the most ever in one year. Two of the procedures involved combined organ transplants. For the second calendar ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chinese scientists have performed the first pig-to-human lung transplant ever, with the organ remaining functional for over a week after surgery. “Here, we report a case of pig-to-human lung ...

A surgical team at NYU Langone Health in New York City recently performed the first fully robotic lung transplant in the U.S. For the minimally-invasive procedure, surgeons used a robotic system to ...

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 ...

It's a very conflicting feeling to be feeling better than you have in a decade and hearing that it came at the price of a ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- A Southern California man was preparing to fly across the country for a life-changing double-lung transplant when his insurance company denied him coverage. Deron Wells is ...