Surgeons at Louisville, Ky.-based Jewish Hospital Trager Transplant Center and the University of Louisville completed their 300th lung transplant Sept. 18, according to The Lane Report. The 300th lung ...

A team at Houston-based Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center coordinated and performed a double lung transplant during a rare winter storm. The procedure, which occurred Jan. 20, was made possible when a ...

Oct. 9, 2025, marks the first-ever Lung Transplant Awareness Day. This initiative is dedicated to uniting the lung disease patient community, raising awareness of this lifesaving medical procedure and ...

Most of Dedra’s life was spent on the sidelines. She was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis – an inherited condition that causes mucus buildup in the lungs, and often leads to infections and damage to ...

The timing of Cornelia Tischmacher's pneumonia couldn't have been worse -- eight months after the Berlin mom gave birth to twins. But the pneumonia just wouldn't go away, so Tischmacher went to a ...

The lungs that Dr. Ankit Bharat took out of Tadd Crosslin, a 49-year-old father of twins, were marred with billions of cancer cells. They were “perhaps the most diseased that we’ve ever seen,” said ...