Editor’s note: This story includes graphic video of the artificial lung system at the end. Hit play to uncensor the video. Surgeons removed a man’s irreparably damaged lungs and kept him alive for 48 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time, surgeons at the University of California San Francisco implanted an artificial heart in a patient and later ...

A novel external artificial lung system sustained an adult man for approximately 2 days after his irreversibly diseased lungs were removed in advance of a double lung transplant. Two years after the ...

UCSF Health doctors in December performed the health system’s first heart transplant on a patient fitted with an artificial heart, UCSF Health announced this month, marking a milestone procedure for ...

Humans can't live without lungs, but Ankit Bharat's patient did for 48 hours. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Reporting in the journal Med, surgeons describe how they ...

A 37-year-old patient (center) with his UCSF Health care team. He is UCSF Health’s first patient to undergo a heart transplant after receiving an artificial hearth months before, and is now discharged ...

Breathing in the warm summer breeze and exhaling a smoky breath into the icy winter air are all made possible by our lungs—without them, a person couldn’t survive. However, the lungs are vulnerable to ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- For the first time, surgeons at the University of California San Francisco implanted an artificial heart in a patient and later replaced it with a human heart. Martell Taylor, a ...