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 ...

John Canning says he had to rely on oxygen 24 hours a day before he had the operation.

Feb. 6, 2025 — Scientists have created a new low-cost, fast response sensor to detect lung cancer biomarkers, paving the way for the development of screening devices to spot the disease even ...

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 ...

This can be a drug or other type of treatment, such as nutritional changes or massage. In the context of a clinical trial, double-blind means that neither the patients nor the researchers know who is ...

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 ...