Whitmer was approved for a lung transplant in December and went into a 10-hour-long surgery on Christmas Day. She said ...

The Shamokin native and former Shamokin Area School Board member worked as a secretary locally before moving on to work at a ...

In 2008, her husband John was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) - a lung disease - and he said he ...

Lung cancer was the fifth largest leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide for those who have never smoked Vanessa Etienne is an Emerging Content Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. Getty The proportion ...

Crosslin has been battling stage 4 colorectal cancer for nearly a decade. He underwent a double lung transplant last September at Northwestern Memorial in Chicago. Crosslin is only 1 of 12 ...

He’s been battling cancer for nine years and underwent a double lung transplant at the Canning Thoracic Institute last September. “I’m thankful for the team here that doesn’t shy away from ...

Phase 2 clinical trial shows a safe dose from a specific donor helped with gut microbiome recovery in people with cancer SEATTLE — Jan. 28, 2025 — A new study shows that oral fecal microbiota ...

After being diagnosed with terminal colorectal cancer which spread to his lungs, he's one of a dozen people who received a successful double-lung transplant through groundbreaking technology last ...

There are several types of lung transplant procedures: (1) single-lung, either left or right; (2) bilateral-sequential; (3) double-lung en bloc; and (4) heart-lung. The underlying disease and ...

A medical student who had a hand transplant after losing several limbs to meningitis has said the surgery changed her life. Becca Heritage was diagnosed with meningococcal septicaemia during her ...

Since the 1990s, a race-based method for assessing kidney function placed many Black patients lower on the transplant waitlist. However, thousands of these patients were moved up the list in ...

Air pollution is fuelling a rise in the most common form of lung cancer among non-smokers, hitting women and people in Southeast Asia particularly hard, according to a study published on Tuesday ...