Transplanting any organ is, unsurprisingly, a complicated process, but lungs are particularly vulnerable to damage before being implanted. Now, researchers at Columbia Engineering and Vanderbilt ...

CHARLESTON, WV (WCHS/WVAH) — Lungs are the hardest organ to find a match for a patient. It has been four years since Megan Mobley-Jeffers got a new pair of lungs after an emergency transplant. Her ...

Researchers have successfully transplanted bioengineered lungs into adult pigs, the University of Texas has announced. The work, which was recently detailed in a study published by Science ...

More than 1,600 people in the United States are currently awaiting a lung transplant, yet more than 70 percent of available donor lungs will ultimately be discarded because of poor organ quality or ...

California, the most populous state, has one of the nation’s lowest organ donor registration percentages.

For people who need a lung transplant, the wait is often prolonged by the frustrating fact that most donor organs have to be discarded: Only 20% of donated lungs meet medical criteria for ...

It's a little-known twist of nature - your lungs can live on for a while after you die. The air left inside keeps them from deteriorating right away as other organs do. An innovative experiment now ...

Fifty-year-old psychologist Dennis Deer’s lungs were failing, scarred by a rare inflammatory condition called polymyositis. Despite carrying supplemental oxygen, the Cook County Commissioner for the ...

The idea of growing replacement lungs, grown from the cells of the person who needs them, in a laboratory and then transferring these into the patient falls within the field of regenerative medicine.

Doctors say a woman in Michigan contracted Covid-19 and died last fall two months after receiving a tainted double-lung transplant from a donor who turned out to harbor the virus that causes the ...

The FAA's decision to trim U.S. flights because of the government shutdown could have a big impact on deliveries of critical ...

Injured and unusable lungs were restored with respirators and pig blood. The procedure one day may increase the supply of organs for transplant. By Gina Kolata The six lungs were taken from brain-dead ...