For more than a quarter of a century, Linda De Croock lived with constant pain from a car accident that smashed her windpipe. Today, she has a new one after surgeons implanted the windpipe from a dead ...

In this July 13, 2012 photo, Hannah Warren, 2, poses with her parents Lee Young-mi and Darryl Warren at Seoul National University Hospital in Seoul, South Korea. Hannah received a new windpipe made ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

LONDON – For more than a quarter of a century, Linda De Croock lived with constant pain from a car accident that smashed her windpipe. Today, she has a new one after surgeons implanted the windpipe ...

(CBS/AP) A lab-grown organ, made from a man's stem cells, may have saved his own life. A Swedish hospital reports its doctors implanted a synthetic windpipe into a 36-year-old man who had tracheal ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sonia Sein said she spent the last six years “trying to catch every breath at every moment” after extensive treatment for her severe asthma damaged her windpipe. She is breathing ...

A 36-year-old man who had tracheal cancer has received a new lab-made windpipe seeded with his own stem cells in a procedure in Sweden they call the first successful attempt of its kind, officials ...

X-ray image of the man's neck and skull with a white and a black arrow pointing to areas of trapped air underneath the skin of his neck In the first known case of its kind, a man tore a small hole in ...

For more than 25 years, Linda De Croock lived with constant pain from a car accident that smashed her windpipe. Today, she has a new one after surgeons implanted the windpipe from a dead man into her ...

Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. “This technique has great promise,” said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a ...

Youngest patient in the world to benefit from the experimental treatment Hannah Warren has been unable to breathe%2C eat%2C drink or swallow on her own since she was born The stem cells came from ...