A medical team in New York City says it has performed the first complete surgical transplant of a windpipe. The trachea is basically a tube that transports air to and from the lungs, so you might ...

Editor’s note: Dr. Lee Pickett has retired, but Creators continues to distribute columns from her archive. This one is from 2021. Q: Our Yorkshire terrier Bentley has a dry, honking cough. His ...

Doctors in Sweden have performed the first-ever implant of a synthetic trachea, researchers announced. The organ, implanted in a 36-year-old Icelandic man suffering from tracheal cancer, consisted of ...

A team of doctors at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin saved a baby's life after he was born without a trachea. When Thomas Richards was born in April, he couldn't breathe. In a video interview given ...