WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health regulators have approved a novel device that can preserve donated lungs outside the body for possible transplantation into critically ill patients.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jon Sacker was near death, too sick for doctors to attempt the double lung transplant he so desperately needed. His only chance: An experimental machine that essentially works like dialysis for the lungs.
A 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl whose parents sued to challenge national lung transplant rules has received a second set of lungs after the first failed, and her family says she's taken some breaths on her own.
The mother of a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl whose efforts to qualify for an organ donation led to debate over how organs are allocated says she's improving after her double-lung transplant.