The first successful direct transplant of a trachea is a medical milestone that could help thousands of people with airways damaged by ventilators and other causes. Sonia Sein, outside her Bronx home, ...

For the first time, a patient has been successfully transplanted with an artificial trachea, created from scratch in a lab. The procedure required the coordinated efforts of scientific teams in London ...

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After years of struggling to breathe and fearing she might suffocate in her sleep, Sonia Sein says she feels well enough to dance around with her grandchildren after undergoing the first-ever human ...

NEW YORK – It’s a medical milestone that has the potential to save thousands of people with birth defects, cancer, or injury to their windpipes from COVID-19 intubation. A team of surgeons in New York ...

New insight on the genes that allow the wind and food pipe to separate during development may help scientists understand the possible causes of birth defects where the two organs remain joined. A ...

Engineers and doctors 3D printed this custom-made splint that currently holds open the airway of a six-week-old infant and will be gradually absorbed into the body over time. Image via University of ...

A team of doctors at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin saved a baby's life after he was born without a trachea. When Thomas Richards was born in April, he couldn't breathe. In a video interview given ...

Last year, Callahan Davis was born in Topeka, when doctors at Stormont Vail discovered he was born without a trachea. April ...

A 2-year-old girl who was the first child to receive a windpipe grown from her own stem cells died this past weekend, Children's Hospital of Illinois said in a statement Monday. Hannah Warren would ...