Cystic Fibrosis: Gig Harbor’s Amanda Messinger suffers from chronic lung, digestive disease | Breathing is something most of us take for granted. But for Amanda Messinger, the simple act of breathing often is a laborious task akin to drowning without…

For the last 22 years, since suddenly dropping 15 pounds at the age of 8, Jovita Robles has been in the fight of her life against Type 1 diabetes. A doctor once told her having this juvenile diabetes is like having a full-time job that you hate but can…

Doctors will test the first artificial pancreas that will be implanted in a 34-year-old woman that had diabetes and was dependent on insulin for the last ten years, Professor Irinel Popescu, director of the Fundeni General Surgery and Hepatic Transplan…

WASHINGTON, D.C., NOV. 13, 2012 ( Zenit.org ).- Caleb Beaver died at age 16 on Christmas Day in 2011 due to a previously undiagnosed congenital malformation of his blood vessels. His devastated parents agreed to the donation of his heart, kidneys, lung…

Robots manufacture cars every single day and roam the surfaces of distant planets, but it’s not as common for mechanical devices to perform complex surgeries.

The pancreas transplant program at UF&Shands has reopened and is accepting patients.

From the age of 6 weeks, Sand Springs infant Nolan Sensintaffar spent nearly every day screaming and crying.

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center was named a recipient of two Transplant Program Awards from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) for its outstanding performance on liver and lung transplantation.

Intermountain Medical Center celebrates 5 years with first, celebrity patients by Kirsten Stewart The Salt Lake Tribune Published Oct 30, 2012 08:54AM MDT Murray >> Jenessa Nagel doesn’t remember the pre-dawn helicopter flight to Intermountain …

San Diego’s ViaCyte Inc. has received $10.1 million to develop a treatment that could transform the lives of diabetics — if it works.