Northwestern Medicine is now the nation's highest volume lung transplant center. Doctors say recently adopted technology — a lung refrigerator — will give surgeons more time for the complex procedure.

The new “lungs in a fridge” tech can keep the lungs intact for up to 18 hours, compared to about four hours when kept on it.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Virtual reality is used a lot for games and entertainment, but now it's being used to help reduce pre-surgical anxiety. The technology is being used with patients at Nuvance ...

After being diagnosed with terminal colorectal cancer which spread to his lungs, he's one of a dozen people who received a successful double-lung transplant through groundbreaking technology last ...

The virtual crossmatch has proven to be successful in renal, cardiac and lung transplantation, and has resulted in a greater percentage of sensitized patients gaining access to transplantation.

Dr. Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery ... performed 148 lung transplants on patients from around the world, the most in a single year since the hospital's lung transplant program began ...

To survive, the team at UW Health put her on a list for a double lung transplant ... She was near death until a life-altering surgery. Welch-Steffens became critically ill in December 2023.

"This study is novel in that it examines the viability of VR technology to provide virtual role-play and skills practice opportunities to supplement an existing evidence-based drug and violence ...

A brain-computer interface, surgically placed in a research participant with tetraplegia, paralysis in all four limbs, provided an unprecedented level of control over a virtual quadcopter—just ...

CHICAGO — Doctors at Northwestern Medicine say medical innovations helped them achieve two medical milestones last year: the largest number of lung ... transplantation and perform the surgery.