A 57-year-old woman with COPD has received the world's first fully robotic double lung transplant.The breakthrough sur ...

A surgical team at NYU Langone Health has performed the first fully robotic double lung transplant in the world.

A New York hospital says it has performed the first fully robotic double lung transplant. The procedure is aimed at speeding up the healing process and shortening hospital stays. It builds on other ...

On Oct. 22 NYU Langone Health announced it successfully conducted a double lung transplant on 57-year-old Cheryl Mehrkar, who ...

A former flight attendant returned to the sky for one last trip amid her terminal cancer journey. Janet McAnnally, who has ...

She had also achieved a fourth-degree karate black belt and dabbled in skydiving and bungee jumping. Now, Mehrkar has a new ...

A team of surgeons at NYU Langone Health recently performed the world’s first fully robotic double-lung transplant, a big ...

NYU Langone’s Dr. Stephanie Chang opens up to PEOPLE about performing the breakthrough procedure on 57-year-old Cheryl ...

Prolific director David Lynch has been outspoken about how decades of smoking led to a emphysema diagnosis. Lynch rose to ...

and Lung Transplantation at Medanta Hospital, Dr. Arvind Kumar. Dr Kumar further stated that they are dealing with more cases ...

Lung cancer is one of the deadliest cancers and primarily caused by smoking. According to various studies, quitting smoking may reduce the risk of developing cancer by 30–50%. Another modifiable ...

Lung transplant surgery is performed to remove a diseased lung and replace it with a healthy lung from an organ donor. This transplant surgery can be done for one or both lungs. People of all ages can ...