Community health workers, or laypeople who support high-risk patients facing social issues, can help reduce hospital stays by 65 percent and double patient satisfaction with primary care, a study ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- What a day it is for a very grateful Glendale Heights man. He's the first known COVID-19 patient to receive a double lung transplant from a COVID-19 donor at Chicago's Northwestern ...

WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) - Howell Graham was the first Cystic Fibrosis patient at UNC to receive a double lung transplant that saved his life in 1990. Today, he looks back on what all he has been able to ...

Insight provides an in-depth look at health care issues in and affecting California. Have a story suggestion? Let us know. The controversial practice has been standard in many teaching hospitals for ...

CHICAGO -- Northwestern Medicine surgeons performed a second double-lung transplant on a COVID-19 patient last weekend. The patient, an Illinois man in his 60s, spent 100 days on life support before ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- News of successful double lung transplants for COVID patients at Northwestern Medicine made it to Indiana - specifically to the husband of a COVID patient. "She had no other options," ...

Hospitals nationwide are making efforts to add more private rooms in response to growing patient demand, reports The Boston Globe. Rochester-Minn.-based Mayo Clinic recently completed a $200 billion ...

Situs inversus occurs when organs are reversed from their normal positions. Two Illinois patients have successfully undergone double-lung transplants after being born with "flipped organs." Cook ...

Northwestern Medicine surgeons have successfully performed a double lung transplant on a man with terminal lung cancer, they announced Thursday — an extremely rare surgery that could open the door to ...

The first COVID-19 patient in the U.S. to receive a double-lung transplant was discharged from the hospital this week, according to news reports. "Once Mayra's body cleared the virus, it became ...