More than 50% of lung-transplant recipients experience a rejection of their new lung within five years of receiving it, yet the reason why this is such a prevalent complication has remained a medical ...

The new algorithm was supposed to help distribute lungs more fairly to people who desperately needed life-saving transplants. But a flaw in the process for awarding the organs to sick and dying ...

For patients affected by lung diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis and others, cures for their diseases are incredibly rare, if not nonexistent. ...

In a study published this week in JCI Insight, Dr. Ankit Bharat, director of the Northwestern Medicine Canning Thoracic Institute, laid out how abnormal cells emerge and work to cause lung damage and ...