A total artificial lung system developed at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine kept a patient alive for 48 hours after lung removal and prior to lung transplant, according to a study publishing Jan.

U.S. medical staff achieved an unprecedented feat by completely removing both lungs of a man in his 30s whose lung function had completely stopped due to a fatal infection, maintaining his life for 48 ...

Three people on the stricken cruise ship died, including a Dutch couple who health officials believe were the first exposed to the virus visiting South America.

Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Reporting in the journal Med, surgeons describe how they ...

One of the passengers on board the cruise ship struck by an outbreak of hantavirus has been placed on an artificial lung and is critically ill. The woman was a passenger from France and has a severe ...

(NewsNation) — A French passenger linked to the Dutch cruise ship at the center of the deadly hantavirus outbreak is in intensive care in Paris on an artificial lung. Doctors say the woman developed ...

A patient who developed a life-threatening condition managed to live without lungs for two days – thanks to surgeons who built him an artificial one. The 33-year-old man developed acute respiratory ...

Doctors in Chicago saved the life of a young Missouri man with a rare infection that had liquefied his lungs, hooking him up to what they have called a total artificial lung. The patient, whose name ...

The woman evacuated from the MV Hondius is in hospital with life-threatening lung and heart problems caused by the disease.

Humans can’t live without lungs. But Ankit Bharat’s patient did for 48 hours. Reporting January 29 in the Cell Press journal Med, surgeons describe how they removed a patient’s infected lungs and ...