New York University (NYU) Langone Health achieved a medical milestone by performing the world’s first fully robotic double lung transplant. A 57-year-old woman with chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

Also known as coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, black lung disease (or miner’s lung) is typically the result of inhaling coal dust for many years that causes scarring in the lungs and makes breathing ...

3D-printed lungs made with living cells could help to improve lung disease prevention and treatment—and potentially one day offer a lab-grown option for use in organ transplants. University of ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion new red blood cells each day to keep the oxygen flowing. For many years, ...