Kylie Overfield, the 2-year-old who underwent a successful rare double-lung transplant at Texas Children’s in 2024, has died. Her family says her legacy lives on in two babies.

"My breathing has improved 100%,” Cheryl Mehrkar tells PEOPLE following the groundbreaking procedure Vanessa Etienne is a Staff Writer for PEOPLE on the Health team. She joined the brand in 2021.

"... When you see how things are in that world of sick kids, we know how lucky we are to have him alive,” said Oksana ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The medical world is celebrating two innovative technologies Northwestern Medicine is using to help give patients a new chance at life, called "lungs in the fridge" and "lungs in a ...

Kim Lam, from Aberdeen, was young, fit and healthy and working in London in 2015 when her life was turned upside down by lung ...

CHICAGO, Ill. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- You’ve heard the saying — doctors make the worst patients? Well one doctor found himself not only a patient, but the first patient in the world to undergo a ...

A Campbellsville native is heading west next month to compete in the 20-kilometer bike race at the Transplant Games of ...

NEDERLAND, Texas — A Nederland mom of two is fighting against the clock for her life and the community is rallying around her to help cover what insurance doesn't pay for a double lung transplant.

(Gray News/TMX) - A woman in West Virginia who received a double lung transplant says she never imagined that it would lead to her future husband. The Cleveland Clinic recently shared Jennifer’s story ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Deron Wells has been fighting for months to get a double-lung transplant and had to battle his health insurance company in a saga that went ...

HOUSTON — Houston Fire Department firefighter Wayne Davis returned home to his family Friday afternoon following a four-month hospital battle with COVID-19. His family, friends and fellow firefighters ...

India, May 14 -- A rare and innovative double-lung transplant has given new hope to a woman with terminal lung cancer and severe lung disease, highlighting how lung transplantation may emerge as a ...