Lung cancer has long been associated with cigarette smoking, but doctors are now warning of a concerning trend, an increasing ...

Kim Ratcliff, who co-anchors WECT’s "Carolina in the Morning" newscasts, is going to be off the air for the next few weeks as ...

Driven by climate change, population mobility and global trade, mosquito-borne diseases are extending beyond tropical and subtropical areas.Outbreaks of dengue, chikungunya and Zika, carried by Aedes ...

“It was the worst news. I was exhausted and completely devastated. It took some time to gather myself as I truly believed I ...

“If you put all the organs on a spectrum, the lung will always be the hardest to do,” said Dr. Leonardo Riella of ...

Advancements in screening technology have greatly improved, and today health care providers use a low-dose CT scan. Patients ...

A lung from a genetically modified pig has been transplanted into a person for the first time 1. The recipient, a 39-year-old ...

Scientists in China have transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a human for the first time. As detailed in ...

The xenotransplantation comes on the heels of recent transplants of pig hearts and kidneys into medical patients.

A genetically modified pig lung was transplanted into a brain-dead man and functioned for nine days, according to a newly ...

The results suggest that lung xenotransplantation could one day become an option, but they also point to how much more work ...