The medical world is celebrating two innovative technologies Northwestern Medicine is using to help give patients a new ...

The new “lungs in a fridge" tech can keep the lungs intact for up to 18 hours, compared to about four hours when kept on it.

Doctors at Northwestern Medicine say medical innovations helped them achieve two medical milestones last year: the largest ...

As contemporary surgical practice continues to evolve, patients who undergo surgical lung volume reduction (LVRS) for ...

Last year, surgeons performed 148 lung transplants, the most in a single year since Northwestern's lung transplant program ...

Lung cancer is often associated with smoking, but for Devonne, the diagnosis after an X-Ray came as a complete shock.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a condition that affects more than 14 million U.S. adults, is marked by damage ...

Though smoking and increasing levels of pollution exposure are well recognised as causes of lung cancer the connection ...

Health First’s Heart & Vascular Program has earned its third straight 3-star overall isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) recognition from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS). [...] ...

Allison Ciaccio had a respiratory illness that wouldn't go away. Repeated follow-ups found Stage I lung cancer.