they acted quickly to transplant the two pig kidneys. “In some ways, it was surreal,” Locke said. “You can almost sort of feel the room hold its breath and then exhale as the clamps come off ...

More than 600 lung transplants have been performed since Northwestern Medicine launched its lung transplant program back in ...

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

Professor JIANXING HE, a leading scientist is recruiting postdoctoral candidates. His team pioneered on (1) tubeless minimally invasive techniques, including autonomous ventilation lung ...

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 ...

After a double lung transplant in December, Chris Newton has already made his return to the bench. “In the spring I was coaching a little bit but it became hard to stand behind the bench for two ...

Milestone in the Field of Lung Transplantation: Improvement in Rejection and Infection Rate Thanks to Extracorporeal Photopheresis Jan. 9, 2025 — Researchers have published a prospective ...

Cigarette smoking is by far the biggest risk factor for lung cancer, data shows — but in a surprising turn of events, the most common form of the disease is primarily found in non-smokers.

At the end of March, she underwent a CAT scan that showed a "highly suspicious lesion" on one lung. Ciaccio's primary care physician recommended she see a specialist. Ciaccio said the call ...

"Over the past few years, we have come to understand that mitochondria can be transferred from one cell to another, and that isolated mitochondria can be transplanted like an organ transplant ...

SINGAPORE – On July 8, 1970, Dr Chan Kong Thoe created medical history in Singapore when he gave Ms Doreen Tan, then 29, a new lease of life with the country’s first kidney transplant.

The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure ...